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Cranford
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $37.95
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell is a gentle, humorous novel about life in a small English town dominated by kind, respectable, middle-class women. The story, narrated by Mary Smith, focuses on their simple routines, social customs, and the quiet dignity with which they face change, loss, and the encroachment of modernity. Through characters like the dignified Miss Matty Jenkyns and her friends, Gaskell portrays themes of friendship, community, and resilience, celebrating the warmth and decency of small-town life in Victorian England.
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