Elizabeth Gaskell
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Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting...
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Mary Barton, daughter of a factory worker, is torn between her love for a poor worker and the life of ease offered to her by the son of a wealthy mill owner. This classic novel of love and redemption, published anonymously in 1848, launched Mrs. Gaskell on her literary career. Also includes four short stories: "My French Master," "The Old Nurse's Story," "Bessy's Troubles at Home," and "Christmas Storms and Sunshine."
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Die Damen des fiktiven Kleinstädtchens Cranford leben in vornehmer Bescheidenheit und weigern sich entschieden, die Veränderungen des 19. Jahrhunderts anzunehmen. In ihrem Alltag gibt es aber auch genug Klatsch und Tratsch, Verwirrungen, Liebeleien und überraschende Begegnungen, die ihre volle Aufmerksamkeit erfordern.
In kleinen liebevollen Episoden erzählt Elizabeth Gaskell, eine enge Freundin von Charlotte Brontë, vom Landleben im viktorianischen...
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Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting...
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This charming and witty prequel to Cranford is a neglected Gaskell classic with all the period detail, distinctively drawn characters, and a well-knitted plot associated with her worksEnjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the "wooing and winning" of women's affections. So begins the fascinating and varied recollections of...
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Half a lifetime ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded. She had also a hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to the wild fells that overhang Blea Tarn. In the language of the country, she was a Stateswoman.
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The anthology comprising twenty-two papers is an attempt to study the select representative writers and some canonical works from different perspectives like narrative, stylistic, eco-critical and thematic. The areas chosen are fiction particularly novel, poetry and autobiography. The fiction writers included in it are R.K.Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, V.S.Naipaul, Anita Desai, Ruskin Bond and Saadat Hasan Manto. These synoptic studies are, focused with...
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Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting...
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A fantastic collection of eleven short stories by Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Contains the stories: • The Old Nurse's Story • Clopton House • The Crooked Branch • Crowley Castle • Curious, if True • Disappearances • Two Fragments of Ghost Stories • The Heart of John Middleton • Morton Hall • The Well of Pen-Morfa • The Shah's English Gardener
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's Half-Brothersfollows two brothers, Gregory, and his younger brother, who is left, unnamed. After the death of her first husband, Helen, Gregory's mother, remarries a man named William Preston. Together, they conceive a child, but Helen tragically dies during childbirth. Mourning the loss of his wife, but happy about the arrival of his son, William is left to raise both children alone. However, since Gregory is quiet, slightly...
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's classic book of 8 short stories shows life in Germany during the French Revolution, and in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. Lightly edited for modern readers, this Inwood Commons Modern Edition includes translations from French and standardized spelling. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited versions in appendices.
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32) An Accursed Race
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Accursed Race" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Content:
Introduction:
"Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell"
Novels:
Mary Barton
The Moorland Cottage
Cranford
Ruth
North and South
Sylvia's Lovers
Wives and Daughters
A Dark Night's Work
Short Stories & Novellas:
Round the Sofa
My Lady Ludlow
An Accursed Race
The Doom of the Griffiths
Half a Life-Time Ago
The Poor Clare
The Half-Brothers
Cousin Phillis
Company Manners
Mr. Harrison's Confessions
The Sexton's Hero
The Grey Woman
Curious if True
Six Weeks at...
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The narrator - the old nurse of the title - is an old family retainer who has worked in the service of the same family for three generations. She tells the young children about a dark incident that she experienced in the company of the children's mother, when she was a young woman and visiting her mother's ancestral home.
This story hits all the marks of a classic ghost story: an isolated manor, creepy music sounding from a disused organ, ghostly...
36) Cranford
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2008.
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Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her dumurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
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Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William, and his niece, Erminia, Miss Matty becomes concerned about...
39) A House to Let
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Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by a nearby "house to let," she charges her two warring attendants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret...
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. In the 1859 Christmas edition of his regular publication, All Year Round, Charles Dickens solicited his favorite authors to take up residence...