Wives and Daughters - Couverture souple

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014138946X ISBN 13 : 9780141389462

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2012

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"She was a pioneer, multi-tasking mother... Gaskell's work will always be one of the adornments of liberal Britain" (Guardian)

"My dear Scheherazade...I am sure your powers of narrative can never be exhausted in a single night, but must be good for at least a thousand nights and one" (Charles Dickens)

"Her stories are wonderfully funny, but the ridiculous is bathed in a poignant, dreamlike mood found nowhere else in fiction, and profound ideas and strong values sleep beneath everyday details of bonnets and cakes" (Jenny Uglow)

"People who read her always come away surprised at how modern she sounds. You don't have to think yourself into her century in order to sympathise, since her guiding principle was no more or less than a sense of practical, day-today justice, totally outside the abiding gentleman-lady-peasant-donkey-peasant's wife hierarchy which surrounded her" (Zoe Williams Evening Standard)

"Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt" (Scotsman)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell"Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ..."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 every man she meets. Soon the girls become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs. But in doing so, Molly risks ruining her reputation in the gossiping village of Hollingford - and jeopardizing everything with the man she is secretly in love with.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 014138946X
• ISBN 13: 9780141389462
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 816