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Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'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 a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new ...Show more
Cranford (Penguin English Library) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'. "Cranford" is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-cen ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Sally Minogue (Intro and Notes by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by)
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
'O Jem, her father won't listen to me, and it's you must save Mary You're like a brother to her' Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her ...Show more
Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
$19.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.' Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary social attitudes by taking as its heroine a fallen woman. Ruth Hilton is an orphan and an overworked seamstress, an innocent preyed upon by a weak, wealthy ...Show more
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