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Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

First published 1853

In the small English town of Cranford, a close-knit group of women maintains its customs while quietly adapting to friendship, loss, and change. Elizabeth Gaskell's linked sketches balance gentle comedy and emotional insight as manners, memory, generosity, and community shape everyday life.

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