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Treasured household names, including Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie, brought Elizabeth Gaskell´s Cranford to life in one of the best-loved classic dramas of all time. This celebratory omnibus edition includes the classic nov

It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Bront Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bront, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden fro m the world. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bront"'e's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the p rocess of composition than any previous edition.

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 owner, and dislikes him immediately. But the mill owner falls passionately in love with her. Then his workers strike. Against a background of industrial drama and personal tragedy, is there any hope for Mr Thornton’s dream?

Treasured household names, including Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie, brought Elizabeth Gaskell´s Cranford to life in one of the best-loved classic dramas of all time. This celebratory omnibus edition includes the classic nov

This novel is a study of the contrast between the values and habits of rural southern England and industrial northern England. The heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts force him to resign his Hampshire living and to move with his family to a northern city.

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's pr esence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling step-sister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two sons; as Molly grows up and falls in love she learns to judge people for what they are, not what they seem. Through Molly's observations the hierarchies, social values, and social changes of early nineteenth-century English life are made vivid in a novel that is timeless in its representatio n of human relationships. This edition, the first to be based in the original Cornhill Magazine serialization of 1864-6, draws on a full collation of the manuscript to present the most accurate text so far available.

One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell´s novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author´s growing reputation but also won the approval of a number of her distinguished contemporaries. The text use

Ruth Hilton egyszerű gazdálkodók szépséges leányaként cseperedik a család vidéki farmján. Ábrándos gyermekkora azonban egy csapásra lesz semmivé, amikor előbb édesanyját, majd édesapját is elveszíti. Gyámja varróleánynak adja egy kisvárosi ruhaszalonba. A magányos hölgy ifjúsága virágos vidékére vágyik vissza az úri szabóság rideg falai közül. Kisvártatva elragadja a szerelem, de tapasztalatlan lelke nem talál jó gazdára Mr. Bellingham, a vagyonos kalandor személyében: románca a jellemtelen férfival megpecsételi a sorsát. Az eldobott szerető élete kis híján tragédiába torkollik, ám kétségbeesett helyzetében fölkarolja egy lelkész, s magához veszi ecclestoni otthonukba. Ettől a naptól kezdve csak azon buzgólkodik, hogy jóvátegye leánykori botlását és szeretetben nevelje föl kisfiát. Tehetsége, szorgalma és állhatatossága révén idővel elismert és csodált nevelőnővé küzdi föl magát. Ám múltja kísértetei előbukkannak, s nehezen megszerzett becsületétől és nevelőnői tisztségétől is megfosztják. Kevés megmaradt barátja támogatásával azonban életét mások szolgálatába állítja, s vezeklése révén elnyeri az igaz életet és Eccleston elismerését - ha nem is a leghagyományosabb módon és a legnagyobb boldogság közepette. Ruth története az emberi botlás, az újrakezdés és a megbocsátás romantikus históriája a 18-19. századi Anglia kisvárosi díszletei között, a humanista Elizabeth Gaskell kiváló tollából, megannyi izgalmas fordulattal és megrendítő tanulsággal.