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Cranford

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Our Society
21:52
The Captain
29:29
A Love Affair of Long Ago
17:47
A Visit to an Old Bachelor
21:34
Old Letters
22:11
Poor Peter
23:42
Visiting
20:44
"Your Ladyship"
25:34
Signor Brunoni
19:30
The Panic
27:36
Samuel Brown
22:32
Engaged to be Married
16:22
Stopped Payment
22:02
Friends in Need
35:05
A Happy Return
25:04
Peace to Cranford
15:36

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About this book

In a quiet English country town, a circle of aging women keeps up appearances with fierce dedication, guarding old customs even as the wider world starts to intrude. Elizabeth Gaskell tells their story in loosely linked episodes, narrated by a younger visitor named Mary Smith, who watches with affection and gentle amusement. Small events fill the pages: a card party, a lost fortune, a brother long thought dead who suddenly returns. Beneath the comedy runs real feeling about friendship, kindness, and the dignity of women getting by on very little. First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words, it remains Gaskell's most beloved book. This free PDF and EPUB edition offers the complete novel.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist whose work ranged from the industrial social novel to tender provincial comedy. Admired by Dickens, she wrote Cranford, North and South, and the first major biography of Charlotte Brontë.

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