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Sylvia's Lovers Volume 2

Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
184 pages
ISBN
9781911495154
Published
27 June 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Sylvia's Lovers
  • morality
  • social order
  • realism
  • psychological
  • philosophical
  • provoking
  • social analysis
  • adventure

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Volume 2: Kinraid taken, Philip’s jealousy doing the real damage, a marriage built on a silence. Gaskell’s Monkshaven turns from harbour talk to the cost of a lie. Sovereign ebook of the middle stretch of Sylvia’s Lovers. Impressment as plot, not backdrop. Sylvia living with a version of events that will not stay. Loss, duty, a small town that keeps accounts. The novel’s hinge: what was said, what was not, and the life that has to be walked anyway.

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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) widened the Victorian novel's moral imagination. Published by Dickens in Household Words and admired by contemporaries from Ruskin to George Eliot, she wrote fiction that refused to look away from social suffering — child labour, class division, the hidden cost of industrial progress — while never losing warmth or narrative pleasure.

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