Mary Barton - Couverture rigide

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857151852 ISBN 13 : 9781857151855

Editeur : Everyman, 1994

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Published in 1848, MARY BARTON was the first novel of Elizabeth Gaskell, later to become celebrated as the author of CRANFORD, MARY BARTON - a better book than CRANFORD - was written after she has married a Manchester clergyman, and it combines a typically sturdy romantic plot with striking descriptions of working people and their lives as she had encountered them in northern mills. Despite this grim setting, the book has all this author's well-known charm and considerable power to involve the reader in the lives of her characters. More accessible than George Eliot, less frenzied than Charlotte Bronte, Mrs Gaskell is a novelist whose wit, human warmth and sharp eye for detail bring ordinary experience to vivid life.

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Everyman
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1857151852
• ISBN 13: 9781857151855
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424