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Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '"I'll not listen to reason," she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say."' First published in serial format in a maga ...Show more
Cranford (Penguin English Library) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it'. "Cranford" is an affectionate and often moving portrait of genteel poverty and intertwined lives in a nineteenth-cen ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics
"The rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds" Mary Barton, the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move ...Show more
Old Nurse's Story: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #39 by Elizabeth Gaskell
3.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from ...Show more
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is 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 b ...Show more
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