Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Victorian

Written by Elizabeth Gaskell
Read by Clare Wille
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

A vivid and affectionate portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-19th century, Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women, relating the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances.

Through a series of satirical vignettes, Gaskell sympathetically portrays changing small town customs and values in mid-Victorian England, in a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy: with such troubling events as Matty’s bankruptcy, the death of Captain Brown and the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns.

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