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Fans of social realism will appreciate the surprisingly nuanced and multi-faceted perspective on Victorian era morals and mores offered in Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's sweeping novel Ruth. The story follows the fortune of Ruth, an orphan who is tricked into an intimate relationship with an aristocrat who later abandons her when she is pregnant with his child. Ruth, distraught, struggles with the social strictures that paint her as an irredeemable sinner. Can she and her child survive? Read Ruth to find out.
Ruth, huérfana y aprendiz de costurera, es seducida y cruelmente abandonada por el aristócrata Henry Bellingham. Una vez «deshonrada» pierde su trabajo y es condenada a la exclusión de la llamada «sociedad respetable». Sola en el mundo, llega incluso a pensar en el suicidio aun estando embarazada. En ese momento encuentra refugio en el hogar del vicario Thurston Benson, que decide esconder a todos el pasado de Ruth haciéndola pasar por viuda...
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Drop, drop, slow tears! And bathe those beauteous feet, Which brought from heaven The news and Prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, For mercy to entreat: To cry for vengeance Sin doth never cease. In your deep floods Drown all my faults and fears Nor let His eye See sin, but through my tears. Phineas Fletcher
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There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that surprises the modern traveller.
Ruth, published in three volumes in 1853, was Elizabeth Gaskell's second full-length novel. (Introduction)
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The first time, for years, that he had entered Mr Benson's house, he came leading and comforting her son - and, for a moment, he could not speak to his old friend, for the sympathy which choked up his voice, and filled his eyes with tears.
At the same time it never loses its sense of the way in which human beings behave, of their limitations and frailties, and of the potential that lies within them. (Introduction)
Fans of social realism will appreciate the surprisingly nuanced and multi-faceted perspective on Victorian era morals and mores offered in Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's sweeping novel Ruth. The story follows the fortune of Ruth, an orphan who is tricked into an intimate relationship with an aristocrat who later abandons her when she is pregnant with his child. Ruth, distraught, struggles with the social strictures that paint her as an irredeemable sinner. Can she and her child survive? Read Ruth to find out.
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