

Kniha:
Mary Barton
Autor:
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Nakladatelství: | » Penguin |
Médium / forma: | Tištěná kniha |
Rok vydání: | 1997 |
Počet stran: | 464 |
Rozměr: | 20 cm |
Úprava: | xl, 417 stran |
Vydání: | Reprinted with a new chronology |
Spolupracovali: | edited with an introduction and notes by Macdonald Daly |
Skupina třídění: | Anglická próza |
Jazyk: | anglicky |
Vazba: | měkká |
EAN: | 9780140434644 |
Poutavý, téměř detektivní román z dělnické Anglie první poloviny 19. století patří k prvním vyzrálým sociálním románům.
‘Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty’ Sunday Telegraph
Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner’s charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem’s affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of the workers, who are resentfully dependent on the callous mill-owners for their livelihoods. But when Henry is shot dead in the street Jem becomes the prime suspect and Mary finds her loyalties tested to the limit
(a tale of Manchester life)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 street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men.