Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and
illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and
entertained readers for generations. This edition features illustrations by
the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an introduction by Dr Josie Billington, a
specialist in Victorian literature.The women of the small country town of
Cranford live in genteel poverty, resolutely refusing to embrace change, while
the dark clouds of urbanisation and the advance of the railway hover
threateningly on the horizon. In their simple, well-ordered lives they face
emotional dilemmas and upheavals, small in the scale of the ever-shifting
world, but affectionately portrayed by Elizabeth Gaskell with all the weight
and consequence of a grand drama.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A rich, comic and
illuminating portrait of life in a small town, Cranford has moved and
entertained readers for generations. This edition features illustrations by
the celebrated Hugh Thomson, and an introduction by Dr Josie Billington, a
specialist in Victorian literature.The women of the small country town of
Cranford live in genteel poverty, resolutely refusing to embrace change, while
the dark clouds of urbanisation and the advance of the railway hover
threateningly on the horizon. In their simple, well-ordered lives they face
emotional dilemmas and upheavals, small in the scale of the ever-shifting
world, but affectionately portrayed by Elizabeth Gaskell with all the weight
and consequence of a grand drama.
