Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret Hale, egy idilli dél-angol városból, Helstonból a textiliparáról híres, északi Miltonba költözik szüleivel. A családi döntés oka az, hogy lelkész apja meginog az egyházban, és lelkiismereti okokból feladja hivatását. Margaret szenvedélyes és szókimondó...

,,Házasságszédelgő". Ezzel vádolják a fiatal orvost, aki egy reggel arra ébred, hogy egyszerre három menyasszonya is van. Már ahogy megérkezett a kisvárosba, felbolydult a város, piknikek, vacsorák követték egymást, a fiatal lányok sorra találják ki a betegségeket, csakhogy a...

This is the Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, with illustrations and a comprehensive scope of her many works. This is the only eBook available with every novel, novella, short story - even the very rare ones - poem, and much more! (Current version: 4)* brief but informative introductions to the...

INTRODUCTION The ocean is the last frontier, the only untamed territory left to us. There are tracts of earth which offer man little in the way of hospitality, but deserts can be made to bloom, mountain peaks can be conquered, jungles can be razed. The sea is another world, uncontrollable,...

INTRODUCTION I Ruth, published in three volumes in 1853, v^'as Elizabeth Gaskell's second full-length novel. Mary Barton (1848), her 'tale of Manchester Life', had brought her both criticism and success: it had given her also the confidence and the freedom to experiment. The immediate result...

Briefly, ABOUT THE BOOK Back in the nineteenth century when novel writing was born in England, a new outlet for this form mushroomed into being: the literary magazines. Along with them came the need for short stories. So it is that we find British writers, the great and the small, turning their...