Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140621024 ISBN 13: 9780140621020

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

This is a tale of Dives and Lazarus, of the comfortable pinnacle and the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. It is told, however, without simplification and without hatred.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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Book Description:

'Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty' Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140621024
• ISBN 13: 9780140621020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384