{"product_id":"mary-barton-9780140434644","title":"Mary Barton","description":"'O Jem, her father won't listen to me, and it's you must save Mary! You're like a brother to her'\u003cp\u003eMary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of her father, the embittered and courageous activist John Barton, \u003cb\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/b\u003e (1848) powerfully dramatizes the class divides of the 'hungry forties' as personal tragedy. In its social and political setting, it looks towards Elizabeth Gaskell's great novels of the industrial revolution, in particular \u003cb\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his introduction Maconald Daly discusses Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel as a pioneering book that made public the great division between rich and poor - a theme that inspired much of her finest work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140434644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.14w x 0.85d","brand":"Elizabeth Gaskell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51924690174133,"sku":"9780140434644","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_04b9c8c5-819b-4806-b475-1e031666e231.jpg?v=1761660446","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mary-barton-9780140434644","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}