Cranford (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014103937X ISBN 13: 9780141039374

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness, friendship and an endless appetite for scandal (from the alarming sight of a cow in flannel pyjamas to the shocking news of the titled lady who marries a surgeon). But, like it or not, change is coming into their world - whether it is the new ideas of Captain Brown, a bank collapse, rumours of burglars or the unexpected return of someone from the past.

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The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around card games, tea, thriftiness, friendship and an endless appetite for scandal (from the alarming sight of a cow in flannel pyjamas to the news of the titled lady who marries a surgeon).

Review:

'Bathed in a poignant, dreamlike mood found nowhere else in fiction' Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 014103937X
• ISBN 13: 9780141039374
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Ingham Patricia