# Cranford

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- Book: [Cranford](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-gaskell/cranford) ([Cranford.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-gaskell/cranford.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth Gaskell](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-gaskell)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-254-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2009-09-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reapparance of long-lost relatives.