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Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Description for Wives and Daughters
Paperback. Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 564.
The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
"Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ..."
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a go-between in Cynthia's love ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
The Penguin English Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141389462
SKU
V9780141389462
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Ref
99-99
About Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) moved from the London of her childhood to Knutsford and later Manchester, and her experience of the differences between North and South deeply informed her writing. Writer of six novels, numerous shorter works and the biography of her great friend Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell was at first published anonymously but later in her own name. Much of her ... Read more
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