Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life - Couverture rigide

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1853310204 ISBN 13 : 9781853310201

Editeur : Keele University Press, 1993

Synopsis

A touching story of love, death, and forgiveness, Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" vividly dramatizes the suffering and successes, conflicts and plights of the poverty-stricken Manchester of the 1840s. Easson pays close attention to the text, employing the fifth edition as Gaskell's final and most careful version of her work, but incorporating 74 substantive variants. This edition also includes three appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.' Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances. Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Quatrième de couverture

'A story of scandal, class conflict and bitter rivalry' Guardian

Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of the workers, who are resentfully dependent on the callous mill-owners for their livelihoods. But when Henry is shot dead in the street Jem becomes the prime suspect and Mary finds her loyalties tested to the limit.

See also: North and South

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Keele University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853310204
• ISBN 13: 9781853310201
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Éditeur: Easson Angus
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible