Mary Barton (Record no. 34228)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199538355
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.8
Item number GAS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gaskell, Elizabeth
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mary Barton
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,
Place of publication, distribution, etc Oxford :
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxxix, 437 p. ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 620.00
Price type code
Unit of pricing 01
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Oxford World's Classics
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances.--BOOK JACKET. Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. - ;'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'. Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the c.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element American Literature
Topical term or geographic name as entry element England Manchester
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Labor unions Fiction
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Working class women
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Trials Murder
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Love stories
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Languages and Literatures
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fathers and daughters
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Personal name Foster, Shirley
Relator term ed.
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Source of classification or shelving scheme
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Permanent location Current location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Barcode Date last seen Koha item type
          DAU DAU 2025-05-19 BBC 620.00 823.8 GAS 035492 2025-05-26 Books

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