Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford has been a popular source for adaptations over the years, including a miniseries from 2008 starring Judi Dench. The Classic Book Discussion Group will tackle this episodic novel in September.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell’s best-known work, is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister, Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reappearance of long-lost relatives.
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Copies of Cranford can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s also available digitally as an ebook (through Libby/Overdrive or Hoopla) and an audiobook (through Libby/Overdrive or Hoopla).
An in-person discussion of Cranford will be held at the library on Thursday, September 26, at 3:00 PM. No registration is required to attend.
Published on August 30, 2024.
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