Gaskell: 360 books

People with learning disabilities are at greater risk of physical and psychiatric illness than the population at large, but their health needs are often not adequately supported. This book is a practical guide for those caring for people with learning disabilities living in community settings....

This is the very sombre tale of Susan, and the things that happened to her "half a life-time ago" to make her the reserved, stern woman she appears to be. It's a tale of illness, loss and disappointment in love; it's also a tale about time and how slowly it will seem to pass looking forward but how quickly it has gone when looking back.

This book tells the story of a teenage girl oppressed into stupidity by her overbearing father and her struggles to rise above it. She educated herself through books, and finds the love of her life. In the meantime she has to deal with an evil stepmother and insincere stepsister. A truly engaging book which presents a strong female character for the time.

Contents The grey woman -- Curious if true -- Six weeks at Heppenheim -- Libbie Marsh's three eras -- Christmas storms and sunshine -- Hand and heart -- Bessy's troubles at home -- Disappearances.

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: Que d’angles dans cette mansarde ! Un géomètre y eût retrouvé...

Extrait : Sur l’épais gazon du cimetière, le soleil de l’après-midi, projetant ses rayons splendides, semblait épaissir, par l’effet du contraste, l’ombre répartie autour du vieil if sous lequel nous étions assis. Les insectes ailés que l’été fait éclore par myriades, nous...

Que d’angles dans cette mansarde ! Un géomètre y eût retrouvé toutes les figures du cours le plus complet, mais c’était mon premier domicile de libre garçon, et j’en pris possession avec un orgueil, une joie indicibles. Mon père l’avait choisie...

Upon their arrival in the fictional town of Milton from their comfortable life in the rural South, Margaret Hale and her parents are struck by the harsh reality of the industrial revolution. When Margaret becomes sympathetic to the suffering of the town’s mill workers and their families, she develops...

'Il Castello di Crowley', short story ambigua e crudele, appartiene ai racconti scritti per le riviste dirette da Dickens. Nelle rovine di un castello normanno, l'anziano custode che fa da guida racconta a frammenti la storia della protagonista, come un racconto di formazione femminile intorno a una colpa segreta.

Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly...

There is one characteristic of Robert Griffiths which I have omitted to note, and which was peculiar among his class. He was no hard drinker; whether it was that his head was easily affected, or that his partially-refined taste led him to dislike intoxication and its attendant circumstances, I cannot...

Margaret Hale is forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south and move to the industrial town of Milton where she witnesses the harsh brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and where employers and workers clash in the first organised strikes. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and...

Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly...

A fictionalised account of the 1692 Salem witch trials.