β Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
π Fiction
π
2000
π Project Gutenberg
π English
β 281 KB
π 1 views
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Mary Barton
β Scribed by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Publisher
- Random House
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 279 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of the workers, who are resentfully dependent on the callous mill-owners for their livelihoods. But when Henry is shot dead in the street Jem becomes the prime suspect and Mary finds her loyalties tested to the limit
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β Elizabeth Gaskell
π Fiction
π
1996
π Penguin Books Ltd
π English
β 379 KB
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing
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π Fiction
π
2006
π Oxford University Press
π English
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π Fiction
π
2011
π CreateSpace
π English
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### Review βGaskellβs shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty.β β _Sunday Telegraph_ ### From the Publisher Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has always tried to make the best books ever written available to the greatest numbe
β Gaskell, Elizabeth
π Fiction
π
2012
π Alba Editorial
π Spanish
β 271 KB
β Elizabeth Gaskell
π Fiction
π
1848
π ePubLibre
π Spanish
β 298 KB
Una trama llena de situaciones lΓmite, una escritura cultivada y puntillosa y unos personajes descritos con simpatΓa y vigor realzan el valor de esta novela. Por sus obligaciones como mujer de un pastor unitario, Elizabeth Gaskell hubo de conocer de primera mano las condiciones de vida de los obrero