Cranford

Description

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskell’s best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reapparance of long-lost relatives.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Elizabeth Gaskell,Patricia Ingham (Editor),Patricia Ingham (Introduction by)
Published: 10/01/2009
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141442549
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 1.08″ H x 7.80″ L x 5.36″ W

About the Author
Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. she is the General Editor of all Hardy’s fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell’s North and South for the series.