Cranford - Couverture souple

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406825549 ISBN 13 : 9781406825541

Editeur : Echo Library, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

If Cranford is not approached in a careful and sympathetic manner it may be a disappointing book to both teacher and pupil. Some preparation is needed, to make, in the common expression of the word, an atmosphere. The teacher may blaze the way by telling about the characteristics of an English village or by exhibiting pictures or post-cards of Knutsford. Pupils may contribute their share toward the preparation by telling or writing about village life as they know it. These accounts should be acute in giving careful particulars and details of the ways of the people of the village, their houses, their gossip, and their views of the world. This preparation, however, should not be done after the manner of a big whistle on a small boat, all noise and no speed. Kather should it be a prelude, quietly and easily done, that a harmonious proportion may be established. History, with all its accessories, should be avoided as the very plague itself. A nother help in appreciating Cranford is to read it aloud. Those gossipy old ladies of Cranford were eloquent with their tongues and sharp with their wits. At the card table, the tea table, in the shop, in the drawing-room, wherever they were, they wagged their tongues in ceaseless talk. Sprightliness and brightness mark the humor of the book, and they can best be brought out by oral reading. Such reading, too, will lead the reader and his hearers to pick up many a tid-bit of humor, that their dull inner ear may otherwise fail to catch. No teacher can expect Cranford to be as funny as the comic sheet of a Sunday newspaper, but he can be sure if the proper preparation is made that 1T hese cards may be obtained from Mr. F. A lcock, 95 King Street, nntsford, Cheshire, at a trifling expense. The most expeditions way of getting them is to send a small sum about thirty-five cents in the form of the International Money Order, purch
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Facing pane LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS omething of the same kind perplexed Miss Matty at teatime when she was installed in the great easy-chair opposite to Mr. Jenkyns sin order to gaze her fill. She could hardly drink for looking at him, and as for eatings that was out of the question Frontispiece On coming out of church the brisk Captain paid the most gallant attention to his two daughters. He nodded and smiled to his acquaintances; but he shook hands with none until he had helped Miss Brown to unfurl her umbrella, had relieved her of her prayer book, and had waited patiently till she, with trembling, nervous hands, had take?! up her gown to walk through the wet roads 12 There was all the more time for m.e to hear old-world stories from Miss Pole, while she sat knitting and I making my fathers shirts 42 God bless my soul, madam !but I nearly forgot half my errand 66 And for a long titne, at Miss Matty s, I know we used to make a regular expedition all round the kitchens and cellars every night.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Echo Library
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406825549
• ISBN 13: 9781406825541
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible