Uma das mais argutas exploradoras das contradições e misérias da sociedade inglesa da era vitoriana, Gaskell desenvolve personagens ambíguos e complexos, que submergem o...
Curioso, Se Verdadeiro
Em busca de documentos que comprovem seu parentesco com Calvino, um inglês viaja para a França. À espera das formalidades, ele passa seu tempo explorando a região em...
Cranford
Cranford é uma obra de Elizabeth Gaskell, ambientada em uma pequena cidade inglesa, onde a vida tranquila das suas habitantes, especialmente as mulheres da aldeia, é o foco...
Cranford
«Gaskell mima a sus personajes y les da alas para crecer, sin que ello signifique que sea complaciente con sus debilidades. Al contrario, Cranford sobresale por la fiereza con...
A Dark Night's Work
A country lawyer, Edward Wilkins has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice...
Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie...
Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie...
Ruth
Ruth is a young orphan girl working in a respectable sweatshop for the overworked Mrs Mason. She is selected to go to a ball to repair torn dresses. At the ball she meets the...
North And South
“North and South “(1854) is a novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The title refers to one of the themes of the novel: the contrast of lifestyles between the...
Cranford
"Cranford" is a short story written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1851. The protagonist is the young lady Mary Smith who narrates in first person the daily lives of some...
