About the Book: Cranford and Other Stories (wordsworth Classics)
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of
Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskells shorter fiction
is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been
selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her
art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the
gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrisons
Confessions, to atmospheric horror in far north-west Wales with The Doom of the
Griffiths. The story of Cousin Phillis, her masterly tale