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Wives and Daughters de Elizabeth Gaskell

Wives and Daughters

Autor Elizabeth Gaskell
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2018

Ce se întâmplă cu echilibrul unei lumi mici atunci când structura familiei este forțată să se schimbe? Observăm în Wives and Daughters cum liniștea tinerei Molly Gibson este zdruncinată nu de o tragedie, ci de pragmatismul tatălui său văduv, care decide să se recăsătorească. Această premisă deschide ușa către o investigație psihologică profundă a vieții de provincie englezești, unde reputația este singura monedă de schimb validă. Imaginați-vă tensiunea socială și stratificarea claselor din North and South, mutată într-un decor de sat aparent idilic, unde bârfa și eticheta ascund conflicte umane de o complexitate modernă. Spre deosebire de realismul industrial dur din Mary Barton, aici Elizabeth Gaskell alege o lentilă mai fină, ironică și plină de compasiune, pentru a sonda dinamica dintre datorie și dorință. Stilul este unul de o eleganță aparte, proza curgând cu o cadență ce reflectă ritmul vieții de dinaintea marilor reforme politice din 1832. Suntem de părere că acest ultim roman, publicat postum pe baza ediției din Cornhill Magazine, reprezintă apogeul maturității literare a autoarei. Gaskell reușește să integreze teme precum influența ideilor darwiniste asupra ierarhiilor sociale și fragilitatea autorității masculine, fără a sacrifica nicio clipă farmecul narativ care i-a adus admirația lui Charles Dickens. Este o lectură densă, dar fluidă, ce transformă un mic univers domestic într-o oglindă a întregii condiții umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781731705655
ISBN-10: 1731705654
Pagini: 936
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 54 mm
Greutate: 1.49 kg
Editura: Simon & Brown

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Despre autor

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), cunoscută și sub numele de Mrs. Gaskell, a fost o figură centrală a literaturii victoriene, celebrată pentru capacitatea sa de a portretiza fidel diversele straturi sociale. De la realismul social din Mary Barton la biografia dedicată bunei sale prietene, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, opera sa îmbină observația acută cu o profundă empatie. În Wives and Daughters, lucrarea sa finală, Gaskell atinge rafinamentul maxim, oferind o critică ironică a convențiilor vremii, rămânând până astăzi una dintre cele mai iubite voci ale literaturii britanice.

Descriere scurtă

Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Pam Morris.

When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. The two girls begin to confide in one another and Molly soon finds herself a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs - but in doing so risks losing both her own reputation and the man she secretly loves. Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel - considered to be her finest - demonstrates an intelligent and compassionate understanding of human relationships, and offers a witty, ironic critique of mid-Victorian society.

This text is based on the 1866 Cornhill Magazine version of the novel. It also includes notes on textual variants between this edition and the original manuscript, a note on the story's ending and an introduction discussing the novel's challenging investigation of themes of Englishness, Darwinism and masculine authority.

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London, but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters, and one son who died in infancy. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848, winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals, including Cranford (1853), serialised in Dickens's Household Words. She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë, whose biography she wrote.

If you enjoyed Wives and Daughters, you might like Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, also available in Penguin Classics.

'No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority'
Pam Morris

Recenzii

"She was a pioneer, multi-tasking mother... Gaskell's work will always be one of the adornments of liberal Britain" Guardian "My dear Scheherazade...I am sure your powers of narrative can never be exhausted in a single night, but must be good for at least a thousand nights and one" -- Charles Dickens "Her stories are wonderfully funny, but the ridiculous is bathed in a poignant, dreamlike mood found nowhere else in fiction, and profound ideas and strong values sleep beneath everyday details of bonnets and cakes" -- Jenny Uglow "People who read her always come away surprised at how modern she sounds. You don't have to think yourself into her century in order to sympathise, since her guiding principle was no more or less than a sense of practical, day-today justice, totally outside the abiding gentleman-lady-peasant-donkey-peasant's wife hierarchy which surrounded her" -- Zoe Williams Evening Standard "Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt" Scotsman

Notă biografică

English author Elizabeth Gaskell also wrote biographies and short stories. The very poor and other members of Victorian society are all depicted in great detail in her novels. Both readers of literature and social historians will find her work interesting. In 1848, Mary Barton, her debut book, was released. The earliest biography of Charlotte Bront was Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront, which was released in 1857. She only covered the moral, sophisticated portions of Bronte's life in her biography; the rest was left out because, in her opinion, some of the more obscene details should be kept out of public view. The BBC has adapted all three of Gaskell's most well-known novels-Wives and Daughters (1865), North and South (1854-55), and Cranford (1851-53)-for television. On September 29, 1810, in the home that is now 93 Cheyne Walk in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, London, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was born. Elizabeth was a lovely young lady, neatly dressed, well-maintained, and thoughtful of others. She had a cool, collected demeanor and was innocently happy. She loved the simplicity of country living. Elizabeth Gaskell married Unitarian pastor William Gaskell in Knutsford on August 30, 1832.

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Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling step-sister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two sons; as Molly grows up and falls in love she learns to judge people for what they are, not what they seem. Through Molly's observations the hierarchies, social values, and social changes of early nineteenth-century English life are made vivid in a novel that is timeless in its representation of human relationships. This edition, the first to be based in the original Cornhill Magazine serialization of 1864-6, draws on a full collation of the manuscript to present the most accurate text so far available. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.