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Desapariciones misteriosas, fantasmas vengativos, caballeros y aristócratas con una doble vida de asesinos y bandidos, encierros en castillos, persecuciones implacables y penosas huidas… Los clásicos

Una petita obra mestra. Ens transporta a l'època en què l'arribada del ferrocarril estava provocant canvis profunds en el paisatge anglès. Una commovedora història sobre la pèrdua de la innocència rural, retrata els efectes d'aquests canvis sobre una noia de poble que, per primera vegada, descobreix l'amor.

La casa del páramo fue publicada como cuento de Navidad a finales de 1850 y, respetuosa con el género, Elizabeth Gaskell compuso una hermosa historia de amor campestre, con un cuadro potente de virtudes y vicios y una apelacion al sentimiento de buena voluntad. Maggie Browne, su heroina, vive con una madre indiferente y un hermano ambicioso que la considera una jovencita enjaulada en el campo, rodeada siempre de la misma gente. Despues de luchar por superar las diferencias sociales que la separan de su amor el heredero de un terrateniente, se vera empujada a un supremo sacrificio para salvar a su propia e ingrata familia. Este pequeño volumen escribiria Charlotte Bronte tiene un bello comienzo, adquiere fuerza en su desarrollo, y concluye con pathos. Swinburne vio en el un precedente claro de El molino del Floss de George Eliot. Combinando elementos de cuentos de hadas con recursos de melodrama y una romantica observacion de la naturaleza, Gaskell ahonda ademas en los entresijos de la vida domestica, y muestra como el amor y la bondad pueden ser armas de doble filo, a menudo utilizadas con fines innobles. ¡Conocemos tan poco la verdadera realidad de aquellos hogares que visitamos como amigos intimos!, dice la narradora de estas paginas y se propone, con fortuna, entrar alli donde las apariencias y presuposiciones desvelan sus conflictos y sus secretos.

Elizabeth Gaskells first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1854), and Wives and Daughters (1865). She became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine Household Words. Her ghost stories are in the "Gothic" vein, making them quite distinct from her "industrial" fiction.The present ebook comprises the following short stories:- Clopton Hall - Disappearances - The Old Nurses Story - The Squires Story - The Scholars Story - The Poor Clare- The Doom of the Griffiths- Lois the Witch- The Ghost in the Garden Room- Curious, If True - The Grey Woman

North and South is a social novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first serialized in 1854 in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens, and published in book form in 1855. The novel contrasts the industrialized North of England with the more genteel, rural South, as seen through the experiences of the protagonist, Margaret Hale.Elizabeth Gaskell (18101865), also known as Mrs. Gaskell, was a prominent British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is best known for her detailed portrayals of British society, particularly the struggles of the working class, women, and the impoverished. Gaskells works often explore the intersection of social issues, class conflict, gender roles, and the effects of industrialization.

El 1691, després de la mort dels seus pares, la jove Lois Barclay ha de creuar l'Atlàntic per arribar a Salem, Nova Anglaterra, on l'acull la família del seu oncle. Era un territori encara salvatge i

Ce roman d''amour sur fond de scandales et d''intrigues se déroule dans l''Angleterre rurale de la fin des années 1820. Il met en scène Molly, la fille rebelle d''un médecin de campagne, les aristocr

North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south, although it was only under pressure from her publishers that Gaskell changed the title from its original, Margaret Hale.The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas.The change of lifestyle shocks Margaret, who sympathizes deeply with the poverty of the workers and comes into conflict with John Thornton, the owner of a local mill, also a friend of her father. After an encounter with a group of strikers, in which Margaret attempts to protect Thornton from the violence, he proposes to her, telling her that he is in love with her; she rejects his proposal of marriage, mainly because she sees it as if it were out of obligation for what she had done. Later, he sees her with her fugitive brother, whom he mistakes for another suitor, and this creates further unresolved conflict. Margaret, once she believes she has lost his affection, begins to see him in another light, and eventually they are reunited.

This book contains the complete novels of Elizabeth Gaskell in the chronological order of their original publication.- Mary Barton- Cranford - North and South - My Lady Ludlow- Curious, If True: Strange Tales- A Dark Nights Work- Sylvias Lovers - Wives and Daughters

North and South is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Along with Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best known novels (and has been adapted for television twice, in 1975 and 2004). The latter version renewed interest in the novel and generated a wider readership. While Gaskells first novel Mary Barton (1848) focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor, North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of both mill owners and mill workers in an industrializing city. North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and employers and workers clashing in the first organised strikes. Sympathetic to the poor, whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who belongs to the nouveaux riches class and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret rejects. The novel traces both her growing understanding of the complexity of labor relations and her impact on well-meaning mill owners, and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister.

This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels of Elizabeth Gaskell in the chronological order of their original publication.- Mary Barton- Cranford- Ruth- North and South- Sylvias Lovers- Wives and Daughters

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.