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Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford

Read the rituals and quiet crises of a community where class, friendship, loss, and generosity continually revise social conventions.

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Contents

  1. Chapter 1: Our Society
  2. Chapter 2: The Captain
  3. Chapter 3: A Love Affair of Long Ago
  4. Chapter 4: A Visit to an Old Bachelor
  5. Chapter 5: Old Letters
  6. Chapter 6: Poor Peter
  7. Chapter 7: Visiting
  8. Chapter 8: “your Ladyship”
  9. Chapter 9: Signor Brunoni
  10. Chapter 10: The Panic
  11. Chapter 11: Samuel Brown
  12. Chapter 12: Engaged to Be Married
  13. Chapter 13: Stopped Payment
  14. Chapter 14: Friends in Need
  15. Chapter 15: A Happy Return
  16. Chapter 16: Peace to Cranford

About this text

Elizabeth Gaskell. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 394. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.

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