Cranford (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - Softcover

Introduction By Tess O'Toole Elizabeth Gaskell

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9780760795989: Cranford (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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ISBN 10: 0760795983 ISBN 13: 9780760795989

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2006

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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.

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

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Originally published as a magazine serial and then printed in novel form in 1853, Cranford is a playful tour of a peculiar country town. From the stately, stern Miss Jenkyns to the timid Miss Betsy Barker and her flannel-wearing cow, the inhabitants are all acquainted, and all poised to overhear scandal.

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