Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 10 January 2010
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Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert opens her collection with an epigraph from Chaucer's prologue from the Canterbury Tales, preparing the reader for 200 quick-turning pages of individual American pilgrimages. With poise and humor, Gilbert explores the revelations of her various journeying characters. Each world her characters inhabit, whether the Western Ranchlands or the Bronx Terminal vegetable market, is authentic and vividly described. Oddly, her stories do not finish with clever twists or perfect endings.
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.
The only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth served as the Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603). She never married, never had children, and was the last of the House of Tudor. Under her rule, literature, fashion, and education came to the forefront in England.
In "Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?" John Sutherland unravels 34 literary puzzles in a sequel to his bestselling works "Is Heathcliff a Murderer?" and "Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?". As well as exploring new conundrums Sutherland revisits some previous puzzles with the help of readers who offer their own ingenious solutions. Victorian drug habits, sanitation and dentistry are only a few of the areas that shed light on the motives of some of literature's most famous characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Betsey Trotwood, Count Dracula, Anna Karenina, Alice and many more.
While her husband circumnavigated the globe, travelling further than any man had before, in her heart Elizabeth Cook travelled with him, imagining the exotic, the sensory, the strange. Shaped by historical fact, this novel evokes the love and interior worlds of the Cooks. Elizabeth Cook outlived her husband and each of her six children. She was aged in her 90s when she died in 1835 and had been widowed for 56 years. Around these bare biographical facts, Marele Day has written an entirely plausible novel which draws Elizabeth Cook out of the shadows of history.
![Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford [Unabridged mp3, pdf]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2010-01/1263071798_cranford.jpg "Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford [Unabridged mp3, pdf]")
