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Elizabeth Gaskell's Lizzie Leigh is the sad tragedy of a young girl who, while being away from home for work in Manchester, commits the sin of adultery and becomes pregnant with an illegitimate child. She decides not to return home for fear of her harsh father's reaction. Not knowing whether her daughter is still alive, her mother decides to take her two sons and go to Manchester to look for her. The narrative then follows Lizzie's poignant ex...

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In the small village of Cranford, some twenty miles from the bustling industrial city of Drumble, the lives of the town's eccentric, endearing characters are revealed in a tapestry of intimate vignettes that reveal the social intricacies of nineteenth-century English society. With humor, heart, and wit, Elizabeth Gaskell imagines a world populated by a loyal circle of female friends whose idiosyncrasies and camaraderie form the fabric of this ...

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A Dark Night's Work" is a novella written with the aid of Elizabeth Gaskell, a prominent Victorian-era novelist. This gripping narrative explores subject matters of morality, guilt, and redemption. The tale follows the protagonist, Valeria Buxton, who becomes entangled in a web of secrets, techniques, and ethical dilemmas. Valeria's lifestyle takes a dark turn while her brother Godfrey commits a horrible crime, and he or she becomes aware of h...

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote the episodic novel Cranford. It first appeared in the magazine Household Words in installments before being published as a book with minor revisions under Cranford in 1853. The work gradually gained popularity, and by the turn of the twentieth century, it had received a number of dramatic adaptations for the stage, radio, and television. The fictional town of Cranford is based on Elizabeth Gaskell's hometown of Knutsfor...

Round the Sofa, Volume. 1, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence the...

Round the Sofa, Volume. 2, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence the...

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