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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon
her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.'
Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of
Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were
equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished
examples of the genre. The novella-length Cousin Phillis is a
lyrical depiction of a vanishing way of life and a girl's
disappointment in love: deceptively simple, its undercurrent of
feeling leaves an indelible impression. The other five stories in
this selection were all written during the 1850s for Dickens's
periodical Household Words. They range from a quietly original tale
of urban poverty and a fallen woman in 'Lizzie Leigh' to an
historical tale of a great family in 'Morton Hall'; echoes of the
French Revolution, the bleakness of winter in Westmorland, and a
tragic secret are brought vividly to life. Heather Glen reflects on
the stories' original periodical publication and on the
nineteenth-century development of the short story in her
Introduction to these immensely readable and sophisticated tales.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
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bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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