Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Enjoying 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...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. This volume contains ten short stories, including touching and emotional Lizzie Leigh - a poignant tale about illicit...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata Victorian society, including the very poor, and...
Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. The people of Monkshaven hate the...
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...
Maggie Browne, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, is encouraged to give up her own life and passions and devote herself to her brother Edward. Through the example and guidance of her mother, who dotes...
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the...
A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with...
Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society. No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than...
Элизабет Гаскелл - известная английская писательница эпохи викторианской Англии. Её произведения отличаются изящностью слога и мысли, яркими персонажами и необычными сюжетами.В данную книгу включены рассказ...
Элизабет Гаскелл - известная английская писательница викторианской эпохи. Её произведения до сих пор поражают изящностью слога, живыми и чувственными персонажами. В романе "Север и Юг" автор сталкивает...
Даже оставшись незавершенным из-за внезапной смерти Элизабет Гаскелл, ее последний роман признается критиками лучшим из произведений писательницы. Его заключительная часть была дописана журналистом и литератором...
Один из самых известных романов английской писательницы Элизабет Гаскелл был впервые опубликован отдельными частями в журнале Чарльза Диккенса "Домашнее чтение". Это увлекательная история о жизни Мэри...
Джон Торнтон - молодой преуспевающий промышленник из северного Милтона. С юных лет он занят созданием и развитием своей хлопковой империи. Нелегкие жизненные обстоятельства сделали его жестоким и холодным....
Роман Элизабет Гаскелл "Север и Юг" на английском языке, вошел в серию книг зарубежной классики. Название романа отражает главную его тему: сильный контраст между деловой, динамичной жизнью в английском...
Каждый любитель британской литературы анает, сколько тайн, интриг и аагадок таит в себе жизнь в тихой деревушке или небольшом городке. О забавных происшествиях и тайных страстях повествует смешной и трогательный...
Элизабет Гаскелл - английская писательница, автор романов "Крэнфорд", "Мэри Бартон", "Север и Юг", а также биографии своей подруги, писательницы Шарлотты Бронте. "Крэнфорд" впервые был напечатан в журнале...
