ELIZABETH GASKELL

Un Dickens inédito en español: un estupendo correlato femenino del señor Pickwick que, según Chesterton , habría podido ser «una dignísima señora Pickwick». En 1858, una pequeña desavenencia con los editores de la revista Household Works, que entonces dirigía el famoso escritor Charles Dickens, lo llevó a fundar una publicación periódica prop...

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When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense...

Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a safe future. But when H...

Obl 4 cranford editado por Oxford

Encuadernación: Rústica con solapas Colección: La clàssica ; 2 «Per a un noi jove sempre és tot un esdeveniment instal·lar-se a viure pel seu compte. No crec que mai de la vida hagi estat tan cofoi com quan, a disset anys, em vaig asseure a l'habitació cantonera de dalt d'una pastisseria a la ciutat d'Eltham.» Quan el jove Paul Manning arriba a ...