Cranford 1851

ISBN-13:	9780141442549
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/27/2009
Series:	Penguin Clothbound Classics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	88,202
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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. Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reapparance of long-lost relatives.