Cranford
✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Publisher
- ePubLibre
- Year
- 1853
- Tongue
- Spanish
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A través de la emblemática figura de unas hermanas solteronas asistimos a los pequeños y grandes acontecimientos de una pequeña comunidad. El paisaje, la ambientación e incluso los personajes de esta novela están tomados del pueblecito en que la autora pasó su infancia, Knutsford, y en un retrato lleno de humor y afecto se nos presentan valores y costumbres que la Revolución Industrial estaba transformando rápidamente.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
### Product Description "Cranford" is the best known novel of 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The book was first published in a series of episodes in a magazine that was edited by Charles Dickens entitled "Household Words". The fictional town of Cranford is closely modeled after Knut
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810 bis 1865) wurde als Tochter eines ehemaligen unitarischen Geistlichen in Chelsea, einem Vorort von London, geboren. Infolge des frühen Todes der Mutter wurde das Kind in die Obhut von Verwandten gegeben und in Knutsford, Cheshire, in der Nähe von Manchester, von ältl
*Cranford* is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. By eschewing the conventional marriage plot with its nubile heroines and focusing instead on a group of middle-aged and elderly spinsters, Elizabeth Gaskell did
Mary Smith, a frequent visitor to the small town of Knutsford (Cranford), keeps abreast of the goings-on of the various townsfolk through her numerous correspondences with local friends. Through her letters, the relationships of the varied residents are brought to life, illuminating the intricate so