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CRANFORD (BARNES & NOBLE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL READING)
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| By: |
Elizabeth Gaskell, Tess O'Toole |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0760795983 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780760795989 |
| Publisher: |
BARNES & NOBLE INC |
| Pub. date: |
9 January, 2006 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Offers an account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. By eschewing the conventional marriage plot with its nubile heroines and focusing instead on a group of middle-aged and elderly spinsters, the author underscores the value and dignity of single women's lives. |
| Synopsis: |
"Cranford" is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. By eschewing the conventional marriage plot with its nubile heroines and focusing instead on a group of middle-aged and elderly spinsters, Elizabeth Gaskell did something highly unusual within the novel genre. Through her masterful management of the novel's tone, she underscores the value and dignity of single women's lives even as she causes us to laugh at her characters' foibles. Charles Dickens was the first of many readers to extol its wit and charm, and it has consistently been Gaskell's most popular work. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Barnes & Noble Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |