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Fiction · 1853

Cranford

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Reading time
about 5 h
Length
70,939 words · 118 pages
Structure
16 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Cranford, first published in 1853, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Chapter I — Our Society
  2. Chapter II — The Captain
  3. Chapter III — A Love Affair of Long Ago
  4. Chapter IV — A Visit to an Old Bachelor
  5. Chapter V — Old Letters
  6. Chapter VI — Poor Peter
  7. Chapter VII — Visiting
  8. Chapter VIII — “Your Ladyship”
  9. Chapter IX — Signor Brunoni
  10. Chapter X — The Panic
  11. Chapter XI — Samuel Brown
  12. Chapter XII — Engaged to Be Married
  13. Chapter XIII — Stopped Payment
  14. Chapter XIV — Friends in Need
  15. Chapter XV — A Happy Return
  16. Chapter XVI — Peace to Cranford

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