Mary Barton (1848) - Elizabeth Gaskell
Public domain
Category: Classic
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
Tags: Classic, Adults, Historical Fiction, Literature
Publisher: AudioGO Release date: January 4, 2011 Duration: 16:19:59, The plot to this book is hard to summarize. You may want to visit the Wilipedia detailed plot. Reader Juliet Stevenson is excellent., Mary Barton is young, kind, and beautifulperhaps dangerously so, the plot turns on Marys romantic choice between Henry Carson, the son of a rich industrialist, and her working class lover Jem Wilson, and the rivalries between them. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel John Barton, her hearty and intelligent but grievously uneducated father, pours fierce love and courage into his family and work. The novel originally was named for him., When Marys beautiful Aunt Esther disappears, She is feared dead but is discovered some time later in a brothel. John blames the gentry that he despises., When the union men decide upon murder after a protest on work conditions is ignored, John Barton is the chosen assassin of Henry Carson. Suspicion fal
