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 Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780563535485 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0563535482 Label: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Number Of Discs: 4 Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: October 01, 2001 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Studio: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This is a full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of Manchester life, set in the "hungry forties" of the 19th century, when a series of bad harvests placed a heavy tax burden on workers. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A 19th Century Soap OperaThis was the selected book for November for our Book Club. A typical Gaskell work: 18th century wordiness -- a slow read. Plot was much like current soap operas: just when you think all the problems will be resolved, another twist and turn is thrown in. Just not my cup of tea. Rating:  - MaryI am a 19th century period drama avid reader and addict. This summer I read every single one of Ms. Gaskell's novels and just love the history she writes in all her novels. In college, I wasn't able to appreciate her writing because I read in a flash, did a review and got my grade. But here I am, years later, reading her novels again and with so much pleasure. Recommend all of Ms. Gaskell's novels if your an period drama reader; then read Jane Austin, Wilkie Collins, George Elliot, Bronte sisters, ... Read More Rating: - Lesser-known doesn't mean it isn't as good!This book shows the opposite side of life of Gaskell's final novel, Wives and Daughters. Where Molly Gibson (another girl sharing her name appears in Mary Barton, too!) deals with a pettish and jealous stepmother and the perils of moving in society, Mary Barton's father worked the looms that perhaps provided the Gibsons with their fine dresses. Unlike Dickens in Hard Times, Gaskell does not dwell so much on the physical aspects of Manchester (OK, Dickens didn't actually write about Manchester, ... Read More Rating: - A keen observer of humanityAfter watching the 2005 BBC TV-adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "North and South", I was intrigued to go back and read the novel. I liked it so much, that I wanted to read more, and so found "Mary Barton". In both novels, I was impressed with Elizabeth Gaskell's keen insight into the human spirit - despair, doubt, kindness, love, compassion, hopelessness, loyalty, frivolity, and most of everything in between. She has a rare talent to create believable male and female characters (with their inherent ... Read More Rating:  - dissappointed and read only half of itI ordered the book after watching "north and south" tv adaptation to another of elisabeth gaskell's book. i was curious to know more from this writer. but this one was nothing similar: the plot is slow, including irrelevant and too detailed side stories. the main characters are not clear and are very distant to the reader, in a way it's hard to care for them. so it was easy leaving the book in the middle. 
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