Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
by Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, Oxford World's Classics edition; missing d/j; blue boards with blindpressed ruling, and gilt spine titling bright; te
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1947. World's Classics. hardback. Very good, Oxford World's Classics edition; missing d/j; blue boards with blindpressed ruling, and gilt spine titling bright; text block good, pages unmarked and clean (some tanning on endpapers); donor's inscription on ffep.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices, the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and courage. Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and survive personal tragedy and everyday dramas; innovation may bring loss, but it also brings growth, and welcome freedoms. Cranford suggests that representatives of different and apparently hostile social worlds, their minds opened by sympathy and suffering, can learn from each other. Its social comedy develops into a study of generous reconciliation, of a kind that will value the past as it actively shapes the future.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC73955
- Title
- Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
- Author
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, Oxford World's Classics edition; missing d/j; blue boards with blindpressed ruling, and gilt spine titling bright; te
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- World's Classics
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 414
- Size
- 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_\"\" x 4\"\"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, pocket, female, Gaskell
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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