Una de las grandes historias de amor de la literatura decimonónica

Esta novela, quizá una de las más inolvidables de toda la narrativa victoriana, describe la historia de Sylvia Robson, una joven provinciana de la que se enamoran dos hombres de carácter antagónico: el comerciante Philip Hepburn y el arponero Charley Kinfaid. Cierto secreto forjará el destino de los tres protagonistas, cuyas vidas conocerán demasiado tarde el arrepentimiento y la redención.

Los amores de Sylvia transcurre en un pueblo portuario inglés del siglo XVIII durante el período épico y miserable de las guerras napoleónicas, y ofrece un retrato extraordinario de las costumbres y los comportamientos de toda una comunidad rural donde el orden y el individualismo, el amor y la mentira son capaces de exaltar y de destruir las relaciones humanas.

Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.

Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Brontë's letters, offering fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.

Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three, give little evening parties, and worry about their maid-servants. But life is not always smooth - there are little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages ...Mrs Gaskell's timeless picture of small-town life in the first half of the nineteenth century has delighted readers for nearly 150 years.

According to many critics, Wives and Daughters is Elizabeth Gaskell's masterpiece. Set in a provincial English town, the novel is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms.