Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
When I read Cranford by Eliabeth Gaskell, I had already seen the movie that BBC had aired, so I thought I knew what I was expecting. Wasn't true, there are big things in the movie that aren't in the book, like every book to movie. And in a lot of ways, I like the book better, of course, though the movie itself is good as well.
Cranford itself reminds me of all small towns; towns with young women, with elder women, a mix of both, & even men who like to gossip. The one thing that I picked up while reading this is its beautiful life-like feelings that I felt with this book. I felt like I was in the book, everything I read sounded familiar, not much changes in a 156 years, mannerism wise. But reading along with this book you feel yourself apart of Miss Matty Jenkyns & the other inhabitants of Cranford. The great imaginative writing brings every scene throughout the book alive with picturesque scenery to make Cranford more then just a small town in England within a book written over 156 years ago.
The story is a keen telling of the lives of the women in Cranford & even if there were many men in Cranford, you'd barley hear about them. This book is centered around mainly the elder generation of women in this small town, with the daughter of a friend to both Miss Jenkyns' a young women, Miss Smith. She is always there for for the Miss Jenkyns' & is the narrator of the story. She brings a heart to the house of Jenkyns' & creates a wonderful line of events throughout the book with how Gaskell lets her tell the story.
The story of Cranford takes you through their everyday lives of gossip, troubles, & back stories of its characters that doesn't take away from what is happening in their now.
This book to me is quite excellent to me with its still able connection to the our now. That in all makes you see the human conditions of then & makes you relate it to us in the no, but at the same time presenting a lot of the good that humanity contains. Great writing, great story, & it's interesting soft turns are a great read.
Cranford itself reminds me of all small towns; towns with young women, with elder women, a mix of both, & even men who like to gossip. The one thing that I picked up while reading this is its beautiful life-like feelings that I felt with this book. I felt like I was in the book, everything I read sounded familiar, not much changes in a 156 years, mannerism wise. But reading along with this book you feel yourself apart of Miss Matty Jenkyns & the other inhabitants of Cranford. The great imaginative writing brings every scene throughout the book alive with picturesque scenery to make Cranford more then just a small town in England within a book written over 156 years ago.
The story is a keen telling of the lives of the women in Cranford & even if there were many men in Cranford, you'd barley hear about them. This book is centered around mainly the elder generation of women in this small town, with the daughter of a friend to both Miss Jenkyns' a young women, Miss Smith. She is always there for for the Miss Jenkyns' & is the narrator of the story. She brings a heart to the house of Jenkyns' & creates a wonderful line of events throughout the book with how Gaskell lets her tell the story.
The story of Cranford takes you through their everyday lives of gossip, troubles, & back stories of its characters that doesn't take away from what is happening in their now.
This book to me is quite excellent to me with its still able connection to the our now. That in all makes you see the human conditions of then & makes you relate it to us in the no, but at the same time presenting a lot of the good that humanity contains. Great writing, great story, & it's interesting soft turns are a great read.