Wives and Daughters. - Couverture souple

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1840224169 ISBN 13 : 9781840224160

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Elizabeth Gaskell

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 :

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster

Gaskell’s last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships – father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter – all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue.

Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the world of the late 1820s and the forces of change within it, and her vision is always humane and progressive.

The story is full of acute observation and sympathetic character-study: the feudal squire clinging to old values, his naturalist son welcoming the new world of science, the local doctor and his scheming second wife, the two girls brought together by their parent’s marriage…

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840224169
• ISBN 13: 9781840224160
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 624