Excerpt from Ruth: A Novel Even that was not so very bad, compared with the next inno vation on the old glories. The shopkeepers found out that the once fashionable street was dark, and that the dingy light did not show off their goods to advantage the surgeon could not see to dras patients' teeth the lawyer had to ring for candlm an hour ca'lier than he was accustomed to do when living in 0 more plebeian street. In short, by mutual consent, the whole front of one side of the street was pulled down, and rebuilt in the ﬂat, mean, unrelieved style of George the Third. The body of the houses was too solidly grand to submit to alteration; so people were occasionally surprised, after passing through a commonplace-looking shep, to find themselves at the foot of a grand carved oaken staircase, lighted by a window of stained glass, storied all over with armorial bearings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ruth, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Excerpt from Ruth: A Novel, Vol. 2 of 3If she suspects, we had far better tell her the truth, at once. She will never rest till she finds it out, so we must make a virtue of necessity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ruth: A Novel, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

North & South (Everyman's library. Fiction [no. 680])

Literature & Fiction

Classics

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Barron 2-29. Includes "The Old Nurse's Story" and "The Doom of the Griffiths."

Mrs. Gaskell's Tales of mystery and horror

Genre Fiction

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Cranford

Black Swan Press

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Return to Cranford: and Other Stories B Format

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Cranford is the best-known and best-loved novel of the nineteenth-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. It is a gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center of the novel is Miss Matty, whose warm heart and tender ways compel affection and regard from everyone around her. Also revealed are the foibles and attributes of the pompous Mrs. Jamieson and her awesome butler, the genial Captain Brown, the loyal housemaid Martha, and others. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that never turns sentimental, Gaskell skillfully conveys the old-fashioned habits, subtle class distinctions, and genteel poverty of the townspeople.

Literary

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class.

Mary Barton

History

Europe

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Ruth

The ladies of Cranford are full of human foibles that make them so dear. While they may not be how we picture the Amazon’s. They are survivors, preserving their town with the codes of their gentile society and trying to keep it from too much change. Rowena Fowler mentions how even the inheritor of the famous red silk umbrella, frail as she sounds has outlived her family: I can testify to a magnificent family red silk umbrella, under which a gentle little spinster, left alone of many brothers and sisters, used to patter to church on rainy days …the poor little lady—the survivor of all—could scarcely carry it. And their surviving spirit is also visible in Miss Betty Barker’s determination to save her Alderney cow, sewing flannel pajamas for it (at Captain Brown’s suggestion) when it lost all it’s hair after falling into a lime-pit. Miss Deborah Jenkyns is the pillar of their society, establishing the rules of behavior. With Captain Brown’s arrival they are innocently challenged, creating one of my favorite paragraphs in the first chapter.

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Ruth, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Ruth: A Novel, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

North & South (Everyman's library. Fiction [no. 680])

Mrs. Gaskell's Tales of mystery and horror

Cranford

Return to Cranford: and Other Stories B Format

Cranford

Mary Barton

Ruth

Cranford