Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140430539
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430530
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Synopsis
‘O Jem, her father won’t listen to me, and it’s you must save Mary! You’re like a brother to her’ Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner’s son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary’s dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, Mary Barton (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the ‘hungry forties’ as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell’s great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular North and South . In his introduction Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel as a pioneering book that made public the great division between rich and poor – a theme that inspired much of her finest work.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9072
- Title
- Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
- Author
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140430539
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430530
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Fiction; England; 19th century; ISBN: 0140430539 EAN: 9780140430530 Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
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