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In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of...
Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. ? At its core are family relationships - father,...
TO SPOD PIORA TEJ WIKTORIANSKIEJ PISARKI WYSZLY OPOWIESCI: "CRANFORD", "POLNOC I POLUDNIE", "RUTH", "ZONY I CORKI"... Po smierci wikarego w miasteczku Combehurst wdowa po nim, pani...
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The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth...
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) to jedna z najwybitniejszych brytyjskich pisarek XIX wieku. Znana jest z powiesci "Polnoc i Poludnie", "Zony i corki" czy "Ruth" - gdzie kobiece bohaterki...
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it. ' Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation...
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'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes...
Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition of North and South is presented with extra material and notes to the text...
When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness...
First published in 1866, this is both a minutely observed portrait of rural and an attractive, humorous novel. It charts the growth of a country-town doctor...
From the author of "North and South" and "Mary Barton", Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" is a standalone publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, with a critical...
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'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another. ' Patrick Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering...
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Classic / British English Life changes completely for Margaret Hale and her parents when they move to a smoky northern city. There, Margaret meets Mr Thornton, a wealthy cotton mill...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront (1857) is a landmark biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bront , and,...
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A través de la emblemática figura de unas hermanas solteronasasistimos a los peque?os y grandes acontecimientos de una peque?acomunidad. El paisaje, la ambientación e incluso los personajes...
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A diciotto anni, Susan Dixon perde i genitori e si trova di fronte a una scelta: prendersi cura di Will, il fratello malato, oppure sposare Michael, l’uomo che ama, il quale la vorrebbe...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings,...
The first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist, in which Gaskell creates the "Bronte myth"...
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Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, "Sylvia's Lovers", is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men...
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Rimasta orfana di entrambi i genitori, Lois è costretta a lasciare l’amata casa del padre, pastore anglicano, e a partire per l’America, dove sarà accolta dagli zii puritani che vivono...
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El señor Gibson, médico de la pequeña localidad de Hollingford, es delos que opinan que el mundo iría aceptablemente bien sin mujeres. Sin embargo, viudo, siempre pendiente de sus pacientes,...
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The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness,...
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A través de la historia de Margaret Hale, una joven del sur de Inglaterra que por circunstancias familiares se ve obligada a trasladarse al Norte, a la ciudad industrial de Milton ?un...
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