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Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140272666
- ISBN 13
- 9780140272666
- Seller
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new step-sister enters Molly's quiet life – loveable, but worldly and troubling, Cynthia. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford. Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society. 'No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority', writes Pam Morris in her introduction to this new edition, in which she explores the novel's main themes – the role of women, Darwinism and the concept of Englishness – and its literary and social context.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yare Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011493
- Title
- Wives and Daughters
- Author
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140272666
- ISBN 13
- 9780140272666
- Publisher
- Penguin/BBC Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- X weight
- 18 oz
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...