Cranford (version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Authors: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell In Year : 1851

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Cranford (version 2)

Preface
Chapter 1 - Our Society
Chapter 2 - The Captain
Chapter 3 - A Love Affair of Long Ago
Chapter 4 - Visit to an Old Bachelor
Chapter 5 - Old Letters
Chapter 6 - Poor Peter
Chapter 7 - Visiting
Chapter 8 - Your Ladyship
Chapter 9 - Signor Brunoni
Chapter 10 - The Panic
Chapter 11 - Samuel Brown
Chapter 12 - Engaged to Be Married
Chapter 13 - Stopped Payment
Chapter 14 - Friends in Need
Chapter 15 - A Happy Return
Chapter 16 - Peace to Cranford
The Cage at Cranford

Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new inhabitants to their society and innovations to their settled existence. It was first published between 1851 and 1853 as episodes in Charles Dickens’ Journal Household Words. Appended to this recording is a short sequel, The Cage at Cranford, written ten years later and published in the journal All the Year Round. In a letter to Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte wrote: “Thank you for your letter, it was as pleasant as a quiet chat, as welcome as spring showers, as reviving as a friend’s visit; in short, it was very like a page of Cranford.”... Cranford is a genteel and humorous look at Victorian society by Elizabeth Gaskell, and is quite a change from her more gritty novels like Mary Barton or North and South. (Summary by Noel Badrian)