Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics)
Author(s)
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson Worships Her Widowed Father. But When He Decides To Remarry, Molly's Life Is Thrown Off Course By The Arrival Of Her Vain, Shallow And Selfish Stepmother. There Is Some Solace In The Shape Of Her New Stepsister Cynthia, Who Is Beautiful, Sophisticated And Irresistible To Every Man She Meets. Soon The Girls Become Close, And Molly Finds Herself Cajoled Into Becoming A Go-between In Cynthia's Love Affairs. But In Doing So, Molly Risks Ruining Her Reputation In The Gossiping Village Of Hollingford - And Jeopardizing Everything With The Man She Is Secretly In Love With.
Keywords
Fiction, Stepfamilies, Children of physicians, Fathers and daughters, Young women, Social classes, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Women, England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, Country life, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Manners and customs, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, general
Fiction, Stepfamilies, Children of physicians, Fathers and daughters, Young women, Social classes, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Women, England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, Country life, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Manners and customs, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, general
| Name in long format: | Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics) |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141905735 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780141905730 |
| Book pages: | 706 |
| Book language: | en |
| Edition: | New Ed |
| Binding: | Kindle Edition |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
