Елізабет Гаскелл - книги автора

ХІХ століття. Англія. Маргарет, вихована багатою тіткою в Лондоні, і припустити не могла, що в сірому похмурому містечку Мілтоні, на півночі, зустріне свою долю. Промисловець Джон Торнтон здавався їй грубим і деспотичним фабрикантом, які ставлять прибуток понад усе. Він був холодний і суворий, як

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in

The Penguin English Library Edition of Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell "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

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. '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...' Based in the industrial unrest of 1840s

This is a tale of Dives and Lazarus, of the comfortable pinnacle and the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. It is told, however, without simplification and without hatred.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and

The Penguin English Library Edition of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell '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

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the

Cranford – Життя у невеликому містечку Кренфорд здається дуже тихим і спокійним. Пані у Кренфорді живуть спокійним та помірним життям. Вони приходять у гості у проміжку з дванадцятої до третьої години дня, проводять тематичні вечори і піклуються про своїх слуг. Та життя не завжди легке. В ньому