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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Wives and Daughters (The Penguin English Library) List Price: $9.95 Price: $8.95 You Save: $1.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780140430462 ISBN: 0140430466 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: December 30, 1969 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel passes from childhood to maturity in a process that, though often painful for her, is sharply and humorously observed. Set in the early 19th century, this novel is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Read the shorter versionHaving exhausted Austen for the time being and seeing that Cranford was funny and touching I began reading the Wordsworth Classics edition of Wives and Daughters. For about 300 pages I was thinking this is really good but at about page 385 nothing seemed to be jelling so I put it down for a few days only to start again at the end to find that the author died before she had finished. There was enough to go on however so that wasn't a big problem. The problem is that the really sad husband/wife relationship ... Read More Rating:  - Gaskell's Wives and DaughtersI am three-quarters through Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (Hard Press Edition) and am enjoying the unusual narration style. The omniscient narrator reads the thoughts of all characters except those of Cynthia. The narrator, perhaps giving a reflection of the author's views, seems to be gently mocking the Victorian mindset, styles, concerns, and customs of the characters. The English country setting in the small village of Hollingford, probably about 1830, gives background to the mimicked mannerisms and foibles ... Read More Rating:  - A VERY slow read...I have seen this novel recommended to lovers of Austen, but they may find themselves disappointed. Mrs. Gaskell was of an altogether different era than Austen, and compared to the latter author's lightness and elegant wit she downright oozes Victorian ponderousness. The story is a fairly simple one, revolving around a mere handful of characters, and hardly bears protraction to around 600 pages. A scheming, hypocritical stepmother tries to secure one of the sons of the local, impoverished squire for ... Read More Rating:  - wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskellI love this story. For anyone that likes Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. This is in a similar vein but less intense. Very good read and video. Rating: - Nothing every-day about this Victorian chronicleWith its fairy-tale beginning ("In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house . . ."), the subtitle of Wives and Daughters is gently ironic. While the basic plot is standard--boy and girl meet and overcome many obstacles, including themselves--Gaskell's tale is as much about the rapidly changing Victorian world as about Molly Gibson and her provincial village of Hollingford. Set before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters consciously brings ... Read More 
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