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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Mary Barton (Penguin Classics) List Price: $10.00 Amazon.com's Price: $8.00 You Save: $2.00 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780140434644 ISBN: 014043464X Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: April 01, 1997 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between the son of a rich industrialist and a working-class lover. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel originally named after Mary Barton's father, John Barton. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Heart Wrenching ReadWe live in a word where poverty is no longer something we see everyday. Many of us live cushy lives where we hear about people living on the streets, and don't think twice about them. This book brings home the horrors of mass poverty, and the cruelty and neglect of those who live in comparative comfort off the labor of those who suffer. We are more and more seeing these times coming back to life here in America as well as many other places. Class distinctions are once again increasing. We live ... Read More Rating:  - A 19th Century Soap OperaThis was the selected book for November for our Book Club. A typical Gaskell work: 18th century wordiness -- a slow read. Plot was much like current soap operas: just when you think all the problems will be resolved, another twist and turn is thrown in. Just not my cup of tea. Rating: - MaryI am a 19th century period drama avid reader and addict. This summer I read every single one of Ms. Gaskell's novels and just love the history she writes in all her novels. In college, I wasn't able to appreciate her writing because I read in a flash, did a review and got my grade. But here I am, years later, reading her novels again and with so much pleasure. Recommend all of Ms. Gaskell's novels if your an period drama reader; then read Jane Austin, Wilkie Collins, George Elliot, Bronte sisters, ... Read More Rating: - Lesser-known doesn't mean it isn't as good!This book shows the opposite side of life of Gaskell's final novel, Wives and Daughters. Where Molly Gibson (another girl sharing her name appears in Mary Barton, too!) deals with a pettish and jealous stepmother and the perils of moving in society, Mary Barton's father worked the looms that perhaps provided the Gibsons with their fine dresses. Unlike Dickens in Hard Times, Gaskell does not dwell so much on the physical aspects of Manchester (OK, Dickens didn't actually write about Manchester, ... Read More Rating: - A keen observer of humanityAfter watching the 2005 BBC TV-adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "North and South", I was intrigued to go back and read the novel. I liked it so much, that I wanted to read more, and so found "Mary Barton". In both novels, I was impressed with Elizabeth Gaskell's keen insight into the human spirit - despair, doubt, kindness, love, compassion, hopelessness, loyalty, frivolity, and most of everything in between. She has a rare talent to create believable male and female characters (with their inherent ... Read More 
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