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Average rating3.7
Au XIXe siècle, le petit village anglais de Cranford vit au rythme des discussions autour du thé et des entorses aux convenances. Au fil des saisons, Mary Smith rend visite à ses amies et connaissances. Elle est ainsi témoin de tous les grands et petits événements qui bouleversent la société de Cranford : deuils, scandales amoureux mais aussi manque d'argent. Car ces dames de bonnes familles se doivent de dissimuler leur pauvreté sous le vernis de l'élégance.
Series
1 primary bookCranford is a 1-book series first released in 1853 with contributions by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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A sweet, enjoyable read. Character-driven rather than plot-driven, so it was a bit slow at times. The characters were delightful, though, and the writing was good. Worth reading at least once.
A modern soap opera aint' got nothing on Crawford. A wayward son who leaves home abruptly, and his mother dies in her grief at his departure. A bank scandal and a rich woman loses everything. A high-and-mighty woman arrives, townspeople are kept from her because they are not good enough, and it is learned that the woman wasn't even rich enough to ever see the queen.
A fabulous picture of small-town England in the mid-1800s.