Gaskell Elizabeth: 328 books

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.

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My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words). It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo,...

A concealed crime and a false accusation of murder