Penguin English Library Cranford (original: 1851; edição: 2012)

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chrisharpe: Both novels offer a similar sort of wry look at the foibles of the English classes in the 18th / 19th centuries. Both are so carefully observed and deliciously written that they remain classics.

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Staramber: In Over To Candleford Laura reads Cranford to her Uncle. Although separated by time they both contain everyday descriptions of provincial British life by – largely – passive narrators.

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InfoQuest: In both Gaskell and Jewett's novels, a young woman (the first-person narrator) comes to visit a rural community in a series of related vignettes. Jewett's is the more poetic, and Gaskell's is the more humorous, but both are lovely little books which center on the experiences and relationships of women in the 19th century.… (mais)

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noveltea: Two endearing small towns, one British (with links to India), one Indian (with links to Britain).

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chrisharpe: In many ways a similar, acutely observed portrait of village life, with an especially keen eye on the upper and middle classes.

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thorold: Two novels 160 years apart that explore the roles of women by creating a view of the world in which men are peripheral or irrelevant.

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potenza: Any fan of Gaskell might appreciate this real-life feminist contemporary.

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bell7: This story is similarly concerned with events in a small English town, though the characters' class and life situations are much different.