Sylvia's Lovers: Unabridged edition (Immortal Classics) - Softcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1518701876 ISBN 13: 9781518701870

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Great novel from 1863 by the popular English novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whose writings were frequently questioning Victorian era attitudes, particularly those towards women, with their strong narratives and dynamic female characters. Set in the isolated whaling community of Monkshaven (modelled over Whitby, which Gaskell visited in 1859 for inspiration) during the Napoleonic wars, Sylvia's Lovers is a strange and tragic love story fuelled with a tale of the press-gangs' evil tyranny over the local people. Left penniless after her father's death and believing that her lover Charley Kinraid is dead, Sylvia reluctantly marries her devoted but cunning cousin, Philip Hepburn. When Kinraid, now a wartime hero, unexpectedly returns, the passionate but vulnerable Sylvia breaks under the strain and must choose between her two lovers. A brilliant psychological observer of human behaviour, Elizabeth Gaskell explores how the struggles of ordinary people were instrumental to the making of British history just prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810–1865) was a English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was also the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was published in 1857. Her works include the novels Mary Barton (1848), Cranford (1851–53), Ruth (1853), North and South (1854–55), Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story (1865).

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1518701876
• ISBN 13: 9781518701870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288