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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957255303321

Autore

Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn <1810-1865.>

Titolo

Mary Barton / / Elizabeth Gaskell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., , 2017

ISBN

9781504045766

1504045769

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

823/.8

Soggetti

Working class families

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)

Fathers and daughters

Trials (Murder)

Political fiction

Domestic fiction

Manchester (England) Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Mary Barton -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- THE OLDHAM WEAVER -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- CHAPTER IX -- CHAPTER X -- CHAPTER XI -- CHAPTER XII -- CHAPTER XIII -- CHAPTER XIV -- CHAPTER XV -- CHAPTER XVI -- CHAPTER XVII -- CHAPTER XVIII -- CHAPTER XIX -- CHAPTER XX -- CHAPTER XXI -- CHAPTER XXII -- CHAPTER XXIII -- CHAPTER XXIV -- CHAPTER XXV -- CHAPTER XXVI -- CHAPTER XXVII -- CHAPTER XXVIII -- CHAPTER XXIX -- CHAPTER XXX -- CHAPTER XXXI -- CHAPTER XXXII -- CHAPTER XXXIII -- CHAPTER XXXIV -- CHAPTER XXXV -- CHAPTER XXXVI -- CHAPTER XXXVII -- CHAPTER XXXVIII -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his daughter, Mary, both want a better future for each other. John toils away with the trades' union for better wages for his fellow workers in the textile mill,



while Mary must consider whom she will marry. She decides to leave the working-class Jem Wilson, hoping instead to wed Harry Carson, the wealthy mill owner's son. But when Harry is shot down in the street, Jem becomes the prime suspect-and learning the truth may yield a future Mary cannot bear. A portrait of the working class's struggles during the Victorian era, Mary Barton was Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel. She went on to write classics such as Wives and Daughters and was the creator of the town of Cranford, the setting for several BBC series.