Mary Barton (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486812499 ISBN 13: 9780486812496

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2017

Synopsis

A working class girl longs for the security of marriage to a factory owner but tragically, her heart belongs to someone as impoverished as herself. Set in Manchester at the height of the Industrial Revolution, Mary Barton offers a poignant view of the injustice of the industrial class system. The novel influenced Dickens, Carlyle, and other writers and helped pave the way for labor and reform movements.

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Review:

"The revolution urged by Mary Barton is a revolution in the emotional and mental dispositions of individuals towards each other a thoroughly idealist enterprise." --Macdonald Daly

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About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0486812499
• ISBN 13: 9780486812496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464