Ruth Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Edited by Tim (Associate Professor in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts, Curtin Universit Dolin
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.'Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary social attitudes by taking as its heroine a fallen woman.
Ruth Hilton is an orphan and an overworked seamstress, an innocent preyed upon by a weak, wealthy seducer.
When he heartlessly abandons her she finds shelter and kindness in the home of a dissenting minister and his sister, who do not reject her when she gives birth to an illegitimate child.
But Ruth's self-sacrificing love and devotion are tested to the limit by a twist of fate that brings her past back to haunt her. Gaskell's depiction of Ruth lays bare Victorian hypocrisy and sexual double-standards, and her novel is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny of the family, and of the consequences of lies and deception.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/05/2011
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- ISBN:9780199581955
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199581955