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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
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Wives and Daughters is set in the mid-19th century in the small village of Hollingford, in rural England. The Industrial Revolution hasn't yet thrown the country into turmoil, and the railway is just beginning to cut a swathe through the land. It sounds old-fashioned, (and there are themes in the novel which date it) but Gaskell's witty, warm tale of love and longing is surprisingly contemporary. Much of the fun in Wives And Daughters comes from Gaskell's sprightly characterisation, and willful insistence on the unconventional hero and heroine, both worthy, principled, and a little tedious. Molly Gibson, the doctor's daughter, is intelligent, spiritedly dutiful and given to much silent endurance. The object of her affections is Squire Hamley's younger son "Good Roger! Kind Roger! Dear Roger!", a sort of duller Darwin. The course of true love doesn't run smooth, thanks in the main, to the scintillating Cynthia, Molly's step sister. Cynthia is a glorious creation, willful, sinful and incredibly attractive, who, with her French education, strolls through the novel with "the free stately step of some wild animal of the forest"--moving almost, as it were, to the continual sound of music. Cynthia's mother, the epitome of snobbery and self-deceit, whose "words were ready-made clothes, and never fitted individual thoughts" adds to the piquant entertainment. The novel revolves around the trails and tribulations, the questionable reputations of the inhabitants of Hollingford. It was Gaskell's last and most mature work, powerful and engrossing in structure and unfinished. As her daughter reported, in January 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell died: "quite suddenly, without a moments warning, in the midst of a sentence" leaving the last chapter incomplete. Wives and Daughters is just a few pages short of an all embracing happy ending.--Eithne Farry
Wives and Daughters is set in the mid-19th century in the small village of Hollingford, in rural England. The Industrial Revolution hasn't yet thrown the country into turmoil, and the railway is just beginning to cut a swathe through the land. It sounds old-fashioned, (and there are themes in the novel which date it) but Gaskell's witty, warm tale of love and longing is surprisingly contemporary. Much of the fun in Wives And Daughters comes from Gaskell's sprightly characterisation, and willful insistence on the unconventional hero and heroine, both worthy, principled, and a little tedious. Molly Gibson, the doctor's daughter, is intelligent, spiritedly dutiful and given to much silent endurance. The object of her affections is Squire Hamley's younger son "Good Roger! Kind Roger! Dear Roger!", a sort of duller Darwin. The course of true love doesn't run smooth, thanks in the main, to the scintillating Cynthia, Molly's step sister. Cynthia is a glorious creation, willful, sinful and incredibly attractive, who, with her French education, strolls through the novel with "the free stately step of some wild animal of the forest"--moving almost, as it were, to the continual sound of music. Cynthia's mother, the epitome of snobbery and self-deceit, whose "words were ready-made clothes, and never fitted individual thoughts" adds to the piquant entertainment. The novel revolves around the trails and tribulations, the questionable reputations of the inhabitants of Hollingford. It was Gaskell's last and most mature work, powerful and engrossing in structure and unfinished. As her daughter reported, in January 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell died: "quite suddenly, without a moments warning, in the midst of a sentence" leaving the last chapter incomplete. Wives and Daughters is just a few pages short of an all embracing happy ending.--Eithne Farry
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故事发生在一个英国小镇豪林福德。女主人公莫莉·吉布森3岁时母亲去世，与父亲，一个勤劳工作，受人尊敬的小镇医生，相依为命，渡过了快东的童年。莫莉17岁时，吉布森先生娶了曾是丘莫纳老爷家家庭教师的克克帕克夫人，一个美丽但自私、肤浅的寡妇。莫莉虽然不喜欢她的继母，但很爱父亲，于是努力地与继母友善相处。吉布森夫人自己的女儿辛丽娅从法国结束学业回来后，莫莉的境况才有所好转。辛丽娅美貌但略有些轻浮，任性。她16岁时曾向丘莫特老爷土地代理人普瑞斯顿借钱，不怀好意的普瑞斯顿利用这个机会向她求婚，辛丽娅曾无奈而假意应承。可现在辛丽娅憎恶他，一心想摆脱。 罕默利先生是一个脾气暴躁，但心眼好的老乡绅，他与他多病、温和的妻子都很喜欢莫莉。老两口把全部希望寄托在聪明、英俊的大儿子奥斯伯恩身上，可奥斯伯恩却学无所成，还与一个法国家庭教师结了婚。老罕默利勃然大怒，不再原谅他。奥斯伯恩为此身体每况愈下，终于在留有一子后病死。罕默利家的二儿子，罗杰，虽然没有哥哥的外在魅力，却更加好学勤奋，成为一名杰出的科学研究者。菲莉逐渐爱上了罗杰，可罗杰却迷恋辛西娅，并向她表白心迹。辛西娅虽有普瑞斯顿的婚约在前，仍接受了罗杰的爱，尽管她并不爱他。可怜的莫莉伤心欲绝。后来，辛西娅在莫莉帮助下摆脱了普瑞斯顿的纠缠，辛西娅突然意到自己以前太自私了，于是她重新拒绝了罗杰的爱，嫁给了更适合自己的人。小说写到这儿，作者就不幸去世了。但我们可以预想到一个大团圆的结局，因为罗杰逐渐感受到莫莉的美德，他一定会向她求婚的。盖斯凯尔夫人，原名伊丽莎白.克莱格亨.斯蒂文森（Elizabeth Claghorn Stevenson），是19世纪英国著名的小说家。 1810年9月29日，伊丽莎白出生于英格兰的切尔西。她出身基督教的牧师家庭。母亲在她出生仅13个月后去世。小伊丽莎白由姨母抚养成人。12岁时被送入一所体面的女子学校读书，接受全面教育，5年后毕业。1832年，22岁的伊丽莎白嫁给了年青的牧师威廉.盖斯凯尔，并随丈夫定居曼彻斯特。1845年，他们唯一的儿子在出生19个月后死于猩红热，盖斯凯尔夫人与工人家庭接触较多，了解他们的疾苦，对他们寄予深切的同情。她的第一部长篇小予《玛丽.巴顿》就是以工人斗争为题材的。此后她陆续创作了《北方与南方》、《克兰福德》和《西尔维亚的恋人》等长篇小说以及《菲利丝表妹》等大量的短篇小说。 《妻子和女儿》（1866）是公认的盖斯凯尔夫人最优秀的作品，也是她最后一部作品。实际上，结尾部分还没有写完，她就突然病逝了。 盖斯凯尔夫人与另一位英国著名作家夏洛特.勃朗特友谊深厚。盖斯凯尔夫人为勃朗特所写的传记《夏洛特.勃朗特》（1857）内容丰富，文笔流畅，既是一部文学作品，又是一部优秀的传记作品，至今还是勃朗特研究中的重要文献。 盖斯凯尔夫人敏锐的观察、平易流畅的叙事风格、幽默的笔触，使她的作品深受喜爱，并对后世女作家产生较大影响。
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02年的版本，纸张很好，印刷也很好,
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很新，这个价格买到我很开心
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印刷纸质都还不错,
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刚收到，印刷纸质都还不错，我对比几个版本的，错不了哪里。抽时间慢慢看
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