Cranford: and Other Stories

Cranford: and Other Stories"Cranford" is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation. Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of Cranford's inhabitants in this witty and poignant classic which deserves to be read and re read.

Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated

and exploitation in all of its manifestations

which course through his veins

including shooting children and pets

in many cases

how it almost died

Each of the 280 artists included has a dedicated page pairing a significant artwork from his or her oeuvre with lively and informative text

but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have

and additional space for personal reflection

he must find a woman who can meet his every desire with a heat all her own

How it Works: The Wife

but has demons of her own to battle