by Elizabeth Gaskell · Ediciones Invisibles · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412579420
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The young apprentice Paul Manning, from Birmingham, travels to a bucolic rural town accompanying the engineer in charge of the works that will bring the railway to the region. During his stay, he decides to visit some distant relatives, Reverend Holman and his family, fearing a purely formal reception and a rigid, backward environment. But, against all odds, he is amazed by the culture and sensitivity that breathes in the reverend's house, and even more so by the daughter of the family, his cousin Phillis. In the mid-19th century, the arrival of progress in a small rural community will trigger the loss of innocence of a very pure heart.
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.
