Rozsáhlý román Sylviini milenci, jehož první část nyní přinášíme, se vymyká i tak různorodé tvorbě, kterou se může pochlubit Elizabeth Gaskellová. K jeho tvorbě jí pomohla jedna z jejích zálib: ráda cestovala na dovolené. Zobraziť viac
Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John... Zobraziť viac
The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell's novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials. Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.... Zobraziť viac
