Gaskell Elizabeth: 328 books

There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that surprises the modern traveller. A hundred years ago its appearance was that of picturesque grandeur....

On the north-eastern shores of England there is a town called Monkshaven, containing at the present day about fifteen thousand inhabitants. There were, however, but half the number at the end of the last century, and it was at that period that the events narrated in the following pages occurred....

My father was a poor clergyman with a large family.  My mother was always said to have good blood in her veins; and when she wanted to maintain her position with the people she was thrown among,—principally rich democratic manufacturers, all for liberty and the French Revolution,—she would...

Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyancing attorney. C’est un peu l’avoué, un peu le notaire, un peu l’avocat consultant, bref, un légiste...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls...

Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess into lodgings near his house, in the Old Town. I was to combine lessons from the...

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens upbringing was a mixture of happy times and sad: when he recalled his father being sent to debtors prison in his memoirs,...

Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House nos brinda una elegante edición de esta gran historia de amor de la literatura decimonónica. **«¿**Por qué los ojos de Kinraid siempre parecían buscarla, mientras que los de ella se mantenían apartados, o bajos, y sus mejillas encendidas?» Dos...

Half a life-time ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded. She had also an hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to...

« Il est bien agréable de dîner avec un célibataire… J’espère seulement que c’est convenable. Tant de choses agréables ne le sont pas ! » Dans une petite ville du nord-ouest de l’Angleterre, la narratrice Mary Smith raconte les mille et un petits riens qui font la vie quotidienne...

Extrait :  Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait  cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyancing attorney. C’est un peu l’avoué,...

Extrait :  Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait  cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyancing attorney. C’est un peu l’avoué,...

Quand la mort entre dans une maison le jour de Noël, le contraste de ce qui est avec ce qui a été donne au chagrin une amertume nouvelle et  ajoute à la désolation le sentiment d’un isolement plus complet. Jacques Leigh mourut au moment même où...