ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1964
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
Dent [Everyman`s Library], 1964
244 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

`It is very pleasant dinning with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!`

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy in its depiction of such troubling events as Matty`s bankruptcy, the violent death of Captain Brown or the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. Written with acute observation, Cranford is by turns affectionate, moving and darkly satirical.


Fiction, Classics