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With an Introduction & Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple University of Hull The sheer variety & accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this & to trace the development of her art As diverse in setting as in subject matter these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's Confessions to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with The Doom of the Griffiths The story of Cousin Phillis her masterly tale of love & loss is a subtle complex & perceptive analysis of changes in English national life during an industrial age while the gripping Lois the Witch recreates the terrors of the Salem witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century New England as Gaskell shrewdly shows the numerous roots of this furious outbreak of delusion Whimsically modified fairy tales are set in a French chateau while an engaging love story poetically evokes peasant life in wine-growing Germany ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play This BBC dramatisation of three of Elizabeth Gaskell&s novels captures the small absurdities & tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford a small rural Cheshire town inhabited largely by women This is a community that runs on cooperation & gossip at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector Miss Deborah Jenkyns & her sister Miss Matty But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster imagined burglaries tragic accidents & the reapparance of long-lost relatives Actors Judi Dench Michael Gambon Imelda Staunton Simon Woods Julia Sawalha Joseph Mc Fadden Francesca Annis Jim Carter Greg Wise Martin Shaw & Eileen Atkins Director Simon Curtis Certificate 12 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen Languages English Duration 5 hours (approx) This BBC dramatisation of three of Elizabeth Gaskell&s novels captures the small absurdities & tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford a small rural Cheshire town inhabited largely by women This is a community that runs on cooperation & gossip at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector Miss Deborah Jenkyns & her sister Miss Matty But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster imagined burglaries tragic accidents & the reapparance of long-lost relatives Actors Judi Dench Michael Gambon Imelda Staunton Simon Woods Julia Sawalha Joseph Mc Fadden Francesca Annis Jim Carter Greg Wise Martin Shaw & Eileen Atkins Director Simon Curtis Certificate 12 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen Languages English Duration 5 hours (approx) ...

&A man is so in the way in the house!&A vivid & affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England Elizabeth Gaskell&s Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent & refined women Undaunted by poverty but dismayed by changes brought by the railway & by new commercial practices the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion & courage Miss Matty & her sister Deborah uphold standards & survive personal tragedy & everyday dramas; innovation may bring loss but it also brings growth & welcome freedoms Cranford suggests that representatives of different & apparently hostile social worlds their minds opened by sympathy & 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 This edition

Includes:: two related short pieces by Gaskell & The Last Generation in England& & & The Cage at Cranford& as well as a selection from the diverse literary & social contexts in which the Cranford tales take their place ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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From the author of North & South & Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell&s Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth Gaskell&s best-known work with a critical introduction by Patricia Ingham in Penguin Classics Cranford depicts the lives & preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village
- their petty snobberies appetite for gossip & loyal support for each other in times of need This is a community that runs on cooperation & gossip at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector Miss Deborah Jenkyns & her sister Miss Matty But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster imagined burglaries tragic accidents & the reapparance of long-lost relatives to Lady Glenmire who shocks everyone by marrying the doctor When men do appear such as &modern& Captain Brown or Matty&s suitor from the past they bring disruption & excitement to the everyday life of Cranford In her introduction Patricia Ingham places the novel in its literary & historical context & discusses the theme of female friendship & Gaskell&s narrative technique This edition also contains an account of Gaskell&s childhood in Knutsford on which Cranford is based appendices on fashion & domestic duties supplemented by illustrations a chronology of Gaskell&s life & works suggestions for further reading & explanatory notes Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell & had four daughters & one son who died in infancy Her first novel Mary Barton was published in 1848 winning the attention of Charles Dickens & most of her later work was published in his journals She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë whose biography she wrote If you enjoyed Cranford you may like Jane Austen&s Mansfield Park also available in Penguin Classics
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