by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230292
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«Cranford» is a level 4 graded reader in English, based on the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published by Oxford University Press in paperback.
Set in the English town of Cranford in the 1830s, the story follows a group of unmarried women and widows who maintain an orderly community full of conventions. Amid visits, teas, rumors and small domestic mishaps, the narrative offers an ironic and affectionate portrait of the customs and social life of nineteenth-century England.
Part of the Oxford Bookworms Library series, with a vocabulary of 1400 words, in an abridged edition; includes 88 pages.
Recommended for upper-intermediate students of English as a foreign language who want to read a classic in graded form.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.
