Gaskell: 360 books

Book cover of Cousine Phillis
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2015

La vie que je menai à Eltham pendant les premiers mois de mon installation ne répond pas à l’idéal d’une jeunesse folâtre. On travaillait dur sous la direction de M. Holdsworth, alors chargé de construire un petit embranchement de chemin de fer entre Eltham et Hornby. Dès huit heures du...
Book cover of Lisette Leigh
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2015

Depuis vingt-deux ans, ils étaient mari et femme ; pendant dix-neuf ans leur vie avait été aussi calme et heureuse que pouvaient la rendre une droiture parfaite d’un côté, et une confiance et une soumission complète de l’autre. On aurait pu encadrer et suspendre chez eux la fameuse règle de...
Book cover of L'oeuvre d'une nuit de mai
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2015

M. Wilkins eut un fils dont la naissance le combla de joie. Sans être personnellement ambitieux, il lui en eût coûté de voir passer en des mains étrangères un cabinet dont il savait mieux que personne apprécier les riches produits. Ce?e considération fit pencher la balance où il pesait les futures...
Book cover of Le heros du fossoyeur
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2015

« Il faut compter parmi les bénéfices du jour consacré au repos, que nos pensées et nos paroles, au lieu de nous être violemment enlevées par les secousses de la vie et des affaires, se détachent naturellement de nos lèvres sous la bénigne influence du loisir qui nous est fait. Le fruit...
Book cover of Poor Clare
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014

A beautiful story illustrating that your curse returns to you three times. In the late 1700s, a lawyer is hired to find the heir to an Irish estate. He meets a variety of pleasant and fearful people, comes up against superstition, religious conflicts, wars and poverty only to keep finding dead ends....
Book cover of Doom of the Griffiths
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014

(1896) Horror (Gothic) / Short Story Plot bullets The Griffith family has a curse on it. The curse says that in each 9th generation, the son will kill his father. Owen is a Griffith and a 9th son. His father is domineering and conflicts are likely. Owen secretly marries and his new step-mother...
Book cover of Explaining Islam from a Catholic Perspective
by J M Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017

There are over one billion Muslims in the world today. In Britain Muslims now outnumber Methodists. This ebook examines the historical background to the rise of Islam in seventh century Arabia and its subsequent expansion throughout the Middle East, North Africa and much of Asia, as well as answering the most important questions about Islamic belief and practice from a Catholic perspective.
Book cover of Bills of Lading 2e

Bills of Lading 2e

Law and Contracts

by Nicholas Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Bills of Lading: Law and Contracts provides a detailed legal analysis of common standard form clauses in bills of lading (and waybills) which are in use in the maritime world, as well as a comprehensive examination of the legal principles which are applicable to them. Bills of Lading: Law and Contracts...
Book cover of My Lady Ludlow
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018

My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words). It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo,...
Book cover of L’Œuvre d’une nuit de mai
by Elizabeth Gaskell, Paul-Émile Daurand-Forgues
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2015

Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyancing attorney. C’est un peu l’avoué, un peu le notaire, un...
Book cover of A Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016

A country lawyer, Edward Wilkins has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His legal representation of the local gentry and nobility leads him to try fitting into their...
Book cover of My Lady Ludlow
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and insists that the lower orders have no rights, but only duties. But the winds of change are blowing...
Book cover of Dickens' Christmas Stories (20 original stories as published between the years 1850 and 1867 in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others in Dickens' own Magazines)
by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013

This carefully crafted ebook: "Dickens' Christmas Stories (20 original stories as published between the years 1850 and 1867 in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others in Dickens' own Magazines)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Not to be...
Book cover of My Lady Ludlow
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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