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Title: Wives and Daughters : An Every-Day Story (Everyman's Library) by Graham Handley, Pam Morris, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ISBN: 0460876511 Publisher: Everyman Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68
Rating: 5
Summary: Engrossing domestic comedy
Comment: In her last novel, Gaskell avoided her usual urban milieu to concentrate instead on the wonderful parochial doings of a country village in the mid-Victorian period. Although she left the novel without its very last chapter before she died, this should not dissuade you from reading the novel: you'll know by the end exactly where Gaskell was going to finish the book and what would've happened to all the characters.
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS is frequently compared to Austen, but it is very different; the comedy and social observation is marvelous, but there's a greater sense of despair here more akin to MIDDLEMARCH. Hyacinth is without question the single most complex and engrossing character Gaskell ever created, and despite her menadacity and her manipulativeness you can't help but feel fond of her in spite of her less attractive qualities. Her daughter Cynthia is nearly as fine a character, and the others are also topnotch. A delightful read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful, captivating book.
Comment: I received this book for Christmas, along with two Jane Austen novels. I read Austen's novels first and I liked them. I have just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's, Wives and Daughters and I loved it! This book portrays the lives of Molly Gibson and her step-sister, Cynthia Kirkpatrick as they grow up in the town of Hollingford. I thouroughly enjoyed this marvelous book and I would recommend it to anyone, especially Jane Austen lovers, for I think they will enjoy Wives and Daughters more then any of Austen's books, as I have done.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Barely Unfinished Masterpiece
Comment: It's interesting that another reviewer here recommends this novel on the strength of its Austen appeal. Me, I never cared for Jane Austen. But Gaskell's book is subtle and brilliant and amazing on so many levels that a little, Austen-like parody is only another flavor. Molly Gibson's moving through her life and the lives of those near to her is solid in every way that literature must be; yet it is in the stunningly realistic depictions of relations between the characters - her father, her stepmother, her stepsister, the Hamley brothers - that Mrs. Gaskell reveals her genius. She refuses to settle for easy reactions and expected responses. If at times her people suffer a bit from a Victorian eye's love of form, her brilliance will allow for no false note. As absolute evidence we see the evolution of Hyacinth Gibson's role in the family, the desperate wrongness of it, perfectly muted to the compromises life brings forth in all such situations. This single character, vain and selfish, inconsiderate but not monstrous, is as real a human being as I have ever encountered in literature of the 19th century, or this one. I conclude with saying that, having been introduced to this woman's work, George Eliot has had to share her place in my mind as the preeminent female author of that century.
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Title: Ruth (Penguin Classics) by Angus Easson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ISBN: 0140434305 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Forsyte Saga : The Man of Property and In Chancery by John Galsworthy ISBN: 0743245024 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Cranford (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Elizabeth Porges Watson, Porges Watson ISBN: 0192832093 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Penguin Classics) by Macdonald Daly, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ISBN: 014043464X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title:Wives and Daughters ASIN: B000059H6T Publisher: BBC Video Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $35.99 |
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