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Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
Cranford (Penguin English Library) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
12.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'. "Cranford" is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-cen ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
19.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a sa ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
North and SouthBy Elizabeth GaskellA study in contrasts between rural southern England and industrial northern England. The protagonist is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts have forced him to resign his Hampshire living and to move his family to an industrial manufacturing town in Darkshir ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
9.95 NZD
17.99 (44% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Old Nurse's Story: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #39 by Elizabeth Gaskell
2.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Young Molly Gibson's life is overturned when her previously doting father remarries, bringing with him a manipulative step-mother and a sophisticated but troubled step-sister. Can Molly keep her head when she becomes the centre of attention in a community rife with gossip? She finds herself acting as a ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to ...Show more
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