Cranford (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509857435 ISBN 13: 9781509857432

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2018

Synopsis

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty, resolutely refusing to embrace change, while the dark clouds of urbanization and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon. In their simple, well-ordered lives they face emotional dilemmas and upheavals, small in the scale of the ever-shifting world, but affectionately portrayed by Gaskell with all the weight and consequence of a grand drama.

A rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and entertained readers for generations.

With illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an after word by Dr Josie Billington.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London in1810. Her mother, Eliza, the niece of the potterJosiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Muchof her childhood was spent in Knutsford, Cheshire, atown she would later immortalize as Cranford. In1832 she married a Unitarian minister, WilliamGaskell, and they settled in Manchester. Theindustrial surroundings offered her inspiration forher writings and it was here that she wrote bothCranford (1853) and North and South (1855), aswell as the first biography of Charlotte Brontė. Herlast novel, Wives and Daughters, said by many tobe her most mature work, remained unfinished atthe time of her death in 1865.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1509857435
• ISBN 13: 9781509857432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320