La cosina Phillis

Written by Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by David Espunya

Ambientada en la dècada de 1840, La cosina Phillis —una petita obra mestra— ens transporta a l’època en què l’arribada del ferrocarril estava provocant canvis profunds en el paisatge anglès. El nou contacte amb el món exterior acabarà modificant per sempre les relacions entre els membres de les tranquil·les comunitats rurals, i La cosina Phillis,una commovedora història sobre la pèrdua de la innocència rural, retrata els efectes d’aquests canvis sobre una noia de poble que, per primera vegada, descobreix l’amor.Elizabeth Gaskell va nèixer el 29 de setembre de 1810 a Londres. Va ser una escriptora anglesa que feia servir el pseudònim de Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson. Va ser coneguda per les descripcions de la vida de les classes més humils d'Anglaterra del segle XIX i per l'ús d'un llenguatge col·loquial que reflecteix la parla d'aquests personatges.

• Language: Català
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Apr 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9788417512514

Elizabeth Gaskell

Mrs Gaskell was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London in 1810. Her mother Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, where she lived with an aunt at Knutsford, a town she would later immortalise as Cranford. In 1832, she married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell (who had a literary career of his own), and they settled in Manchester. The industrial surroundings offered her inspiration for her novels. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her other novels are Cranford (1853) and North and South (1855). Elizabeth met Charlotte Brontë in 1850, and they struck up a great friendship. After Charlotte's death in 1855, her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography to counteract gossip and speculation. The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857. Gaskell was also a skilled proponent of the ghost story. Her last novel, Wives and Daughters, said by many to be her most mature work remained unfinished at the time of her death in 1865.