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Cranford Paperback - 2006

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Patricia Ingham (Editor)

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A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vividly memorable characters including the dignified Lady Glenmire and the duplicitous showman Signor Brunoni Cranford is a portrait of kindness, compassion, and hope.

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Cranford depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village – their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loyal support for each other in times of need. The village is dominated by women, from the kindly spinster Miss Matty, living in genteel poverty with her redoubtable sister, to Lady Glenmire, who shocks everyone by marrying the doctor. When men do appear, such as 'modern' Captain Brown or Matty's suitor from the past, they bring disruption and excitement to the everyday life of Cranford. This volume includes the novella Cousin Phillis, which depicts a fleeting love affair in a rural community at a time when old values are being supplanted by the new. Both works are exquisitely observed tragicomedies of human nature, told with great delicacy and affection.

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A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, "Cranford" describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vividly memorable characters?including the dignified Lady Glenmire and the duplicitous showman Signor Brunoni?"Cranford" is a portrait of kindness, compassion, and hope.

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  • Title Cranford
  • Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Patricia Ingham (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 213
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, NEW YORK
  • Publication date March 28, 2006
  • ISBN 9780143039419 / 0143039415
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.2 x 0.56 in (19.71 x 13.21 x 1.42 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1220
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005056555
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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