Gaskell Elizabeth: 328 books

Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era, and her novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society in 19th century Britain.

A DARK NIGHT'S WORK, a short fiction novel, was written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1863.

A Dark Night's Work written by Elizabeth Gaskell who was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.  This book was published in 1863. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean...

Le Héros du fossoyeur est une nouvelle de la romancière britannique Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). Elle connut le succès grâce à un autre auteur célèbre, Charles Dickens, qui accepta de lui publier ses oeuvres. Extrait : Quand il s'obstina dans son refus, -- répétant qu'il était mal de se...

Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece, plus a biography of her by another 19th century novelist.

Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘“I'll not listen to reason,” she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say."’ First published in serial...

Femmes et filles est le dernier livre d’Elisabeth Gaskell, il est aussi le plus abouti de ses romans consacrés aux études de mœurs et de caractères, dans la tradition des grands auteurs anglo-saxons du 19e siècle Jane Austen et Henry James. Le niveau de ses œuvres dans lesquelles est distillée...

North and South draws on Gaskell's own experiences of the poverty and hardship of life in the industrial north of England. Her heroine, Margaret Hale, is taken from the wealthy south by her nonconformist minister father, to live in a fictional northern town. The stark differences are explored through...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.’ When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole...

Margaret Hale’s life changes dramatically when her father quits his living as a parson in the idyllic New Forest in the South of England and moves the family to the northern industrial town of Milton, intending to become a private tutor. There, she is appalled at the poverty surrounding her and...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds…’ Set in the industrial unrest of 1840s Manchester,...

Margaret Hale’s life changes dramatically when her father quits his living as a parson in the idyllic New Forest in the South of England and moves the family to the northern industrial town of Milton, intending to become a private tutor. There, she is appalled at the poverty surrounding her and...

Margaret Hale’s life changes dramatically when her father quits his living as a parson in the idyllic New Forest in the South of England and moves the family to the northern industrial town of Milton, intending to become a private tutor. There, she is appalled at the poverty surrounding her and...