A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell
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A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .15" w x 6.00" l, .22 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 66 pages
About the Author Along with short stories and a biography of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) published five more novels including "Wives and Daughters" (1865).
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful. Don't let the publication date scare you off! By M.Jacobsen Published in 1863, A Dark Night's Work is the story of Ellinor Wilkins, daughter to a well-to-do country lawyer in rural England. Having lost her mother and sister at a very young age, Ellinor develops an intense bond with her father and enjoys all of his attention and financial comforts throughout her childhood.Her bond with Mr. Wilkins is so strong that, as is wont to happen in these circumstances, Ellinor is also blind to his faults, not the least of which are an over-reaching pride and drunkenness. As Ellinor grows into adulthood, she will eventually meet and become engaged to a young man of a noble family.Just as she is about to float blindly from one comfortable life with her father into another with a husband, tragedy strikes.Mr. Wilkins, in a fit of drunken rage, commits murder. Desperate to avoid the disgrace, Ellinor, her father and a family servant hide the body.From here on out, the story is chiefly concerned with the effects of a guilty conscious. Each person concerned deals with the guilt in devastating ways and the effects are far-reaching into the future.Gaskell's forte with this novella is her examination of character and tragedy. She foreshadows early in the story,"...it is approaching all of us at this very time; you, reader, I, writer, have each our great sorrow bearing down on us. It may be yet beyond the dimmest point of our horizon, but in the stillness of the night our hearts shrink at the sound of its coming footstep. Well is it for those who fall into the hands of the Lord rather than into the hands of men; but worst of all is it for him who has hereafter to mingle the gall of remorse with the cup held out to him by his doom."(A Dark Night's Work, Elizabeth Gaskell)Very gothic, no?Gaskell doesn't attempt to develop much sympathy for Ellinor's plight. Rather, she simply states facts without sentiment and allows the reader's to draw their own conclusions. You may, as you read her story, determine that Ellinor gets everything she had coming to her. Or you may decide the consequences are rather too harsh.Either way, the novella is a story with dark undertones of family dynamics and social mores, rather impressive for the time frame and rather reminds us of Edith Wharton's darker works which weren't to come along for another fifty years. Well worth the download and the time to read it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Worthwhile Way to Pass the Time By Laura Govia While not quite "high" literature, this is far from a pot boiler. Gaskell brilliantly explores the classism of Victorian England through the development of Mr. Wilkins' character without having the narrator intrude upon the story with unwanted moralizing on the subject.Although the novel fills its quota for the heroine's fainting, the melodrama is kept to a minimum and does not offend the sensibilities of a 21st-century reader.I would recommend it to anyone who would like to read a well-plotted, suspenseful novel by an author with an eye toward the larger issues of her time and the sympathy to create honest and all-too-human characters.This version is good in spite of a typo or two, but I won't complain. It was free, after all.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Nice Story with a Good Old Fashioned Ending By Nancy Banner Well written, an adequately complex plot, good group of characters, with a satisfactory ending. One can imagine being in this situation, and faced with how to deal with it. I used this kindle book to contribute to the public domain audio book version, published on Librivox.org.
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