EDITH WHARTON Collected Works - Collected Works of Edith Wharton

Illustrated in Color with Extensive Critical and Historical Commentary and The Complete Biography of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell!

CONTAINS ALL OF THE UNABRIDGED WORKS OF ANNE BRONTE, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, AND EMILY BRONTE AS WELL AS

• OVER 10 COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
• EXTENSIVE HISTORICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARY
• CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINE OF THE BRONTE SISTERS, AS WELL AS THE
• COMPLETE ACCLAIMED BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE BY ELIZABETH GASKELL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Anne Brontë
  • Poems by Acton Bell
  • Agnes Grey
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

• Charlotte Brontë
  • Poems by Currer Bell
  • Jane Eyre
  • Shirley
  • Villette
  • The Professor

• Emily Brontë
  • Poems by Ellis Bell
  • Wuthering Heights

• Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë

• CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAY: THE LITERARY LEGACY OF THE THREE BRONTE SISTERS

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ELIZABETH GASKELL THE COMPLETE WORKS (Worldwide Bestseller)

All the Works of Elizabth Gaskell in their Complete, Unabridged, Definitive Edition for Kobo

Includes MARY BARTON, CRANFORD, NORTH AND SOUTH, WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE

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"He paused. Margaret went very white, and compressed her lips a little more. Otherwise not a feature moved. With the quick insight into character, without which no medical man can rise to the eminence of Dr. Donaldson, he saw that she would exact the full truth; that she would know if one iota was withheld; and that the withholding would be torture more acute than the knowledge of it. He spoke two short sentences in a low voice, watching her all the time; for the pupils of her eyes dilated into a black horror and the whiteness of her complexion became livid. He ceased speaking. He waited for that look to go off,—for her gasping breath to come. Then she said:—

'I thank you most truly, sir, for your confidence. That dread has haunted me for many weeks. It is a true, real agony. My poor, poor mother!' her lips began to quiver, and he let her have the relief of tears, sure of her power of self-control to check them.

A few tears—those were all she shed, before she recollected the many questions she longed to ask.

'Will there be much suffering?'

He shook his head. 'That we cannot tell. It depends on constitution; on a thousand things. But the late discoveries of medical science have given us large power of alleviation.'

'My father!' said Margaret, trembling all over.

'I do not know Mr. Hale. I mean, it is difficult to give advice. But I should say, bear on, with the knowledge you have forced me to give you so abruptly, till the fact which I could not with-hold has become in some degree familiar to you, so that you may, without too great an effort, be able to give what comfort you can to your father. Before then,—my visits, which, of course, I shall repeat from time to time, although I fear I can do nothing but alleviate,—a thousand little circumstances will have occurred to awaken his alarm, to deepen it—so that he will be all the better prepared.—Nay, my dear young lady—nay, my dear—I saw Mr. Thornton, and I honour your father for the sacrifice he has made, however mistaken I may believe him to be.—Well, this once, if it will please you, my dear. Only remember, when I come again, I come as a friend. And you must learn to look upon me as such, because seeing each other—getting to know each other at such times as these, is worth years of morning calls.' Margaret could not speak for crying: but she wrung his hand at parting."

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• MARY BARTON
• RUTH
• NORTH AND SOUTH
• SYLVIA'S LOVERS
• WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
• ROGER HAMLEY’S CONFESSION
• THE MOORLAND COTTAGE
• MR. HARRISON'S CONFESSIONS
• THE POOR CLARE
• MY LADY LUDLOW
• LOIS THE WITCH
• A DARK NIGHT'S WORK
• COUSIN PHILLIS
• LIBBIE MARSH’S THREE ERAS
• - VALENTINE’S DAY.
• - WHITSUNTIDE.
• - MICHAELMAS.
• THE SEXTON'S HERO
• CHRISTMAS STORMS AND SUNSHINE.
• HAND AND HEART
• THE WELL OF PEN-MORFA
• MARTHA PRESTON
• THE HEART OF JOHN MIDDLETON
• THE DESERTED MANSION
• THE SHAH'S ENGLISH GARDENER
• THE OLD NURSE’S STORY
• BESSY’S TROUBLES AT HOME.
• THE SQUIRE'S STORY
• BRAN
• THE SCHOLAR'S STORY
• HOUSEHOLD WORDSMORTON HALL
• MY FRENCH MASTER
• UNCLE PETER
• COMPANY MANNERS
• LIZZIE LEIGH
• HALF A LIFE-TIME AGO
• AN ACCURSED RACE
• A VISIT TO ETON
• RIGHT AT LAST
• THE MANCHESTER MARRIAGE
• THE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS
• THE CROOKED BRANCH
• ROUND THE SOFA.
• THE HALF-BROTHERS
• A FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
• CURIOUS, IF TRUE
• EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM RICHARD WHITTINGHAM, ESQ.
• THE GREY WOMAN
• SIX WEEKS AT HEPPENHEIM
• SHAMS
• AN ITALIAN INSTITUTION
• THE CAGE AT CRANFORD
• CROWLEY CASTLE
• SOME PASSAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CHOMLEY FAMILY
• TWO FRAGMENTS OF GHOST STORIES
• SKETCHES AMONG THE POOR, NO. 1
• CLOPTON HALL
• THE LAST GENERATION IN ENGLAND
• DISAPPEARANCES
• CUMBERLAND SHEEP SHEARERS
• TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE HUGUENOTS
• MODERN GREEK SONGS
• THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE
• FRENCH LIFE

ABOUT ELIZABETH GASKELL

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.

On 30 August 1832 Elizabeth married minister William Gaskell in Knutsford. They spent their honeymoon in North Wales, staying with Elizabeth's uncle, Samuel Holland, who lived near Porthmadog. The Gaskells then settled in Manchester, where William was the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel. Manchester's industrial surroundings would influence Elizabeth's novels in the industrial genre. Their first child, a daughter, was stillborn in 1833. A son, William, (1844–45), died in infancy, and this tragedy became the catalyst for Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton.

Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1854), and Wives and Daughters (1865). She became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine Household Words. Her ghost stories are quite distinct, in the "Gothic" vein, from her industrial fiction.

Even though her writing conforms to Victorian conventions (including signing her name "Mrs. Gaskell"), Gaskell usually frames her stories as critiques of contemporary attitudes: her early works focused on factory work in the Midlands. She always emphasised the role of women, with complex narratives and dynamic female characters.

In addition to her fiction, Gaskell also wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë, which played a significant role in developing her fellow writer's reputation.

This Book Contains :

PERSUASION

   NORTHANGER ABBEY

   MANSFIELD PARK

   EMMA

   LADY SUSAN

   LOVE AND FREINDSHIP AND OTHER EARLY WORKS

   PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

   SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.[B] From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.
Biographical information concerning Jane Austen is "famously scarce", according to one biographer. Only some personal and family letters remain (by one estimate only 160 out of Austen's 3,000 letters are extant), and her sister Cassandra (to whom most of the letters were originally addressed) burned "the greater part" of the ones she kept and censored those she did not destroy. Other letters were destroyed by the heirs of Admiral Francis Austen, Jane's brother. Most of the biographical material produced for fifty years after Austen's death was written by her relatives and reflects the family's biases in favour of "good quiet Aunt Jane". Scholars have unearthed little information since.

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Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина»; Russian pronunciation: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpopular views of volunteers going to Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form.
Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel.
Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in "The Top Ten" in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".

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