Hand and Heart

11 hrs. 58 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) belongs to the bright constellation of celebrated English novelists and, alongside Charlotte Brontë, holds the most honorable place among the “literary ladies” of the Victorian era—her works recognized as masterpieces of world classics. Among them are the novels “Mary Barton,” “Cranford,” “North and South,” “Wives and Daughters,” and others. This collection presents the author’s “short prose”—a collection of stories written across different years of her life—where scenes from “good old England” come alive. These are very different stories—educational, mystical, touching, and curious—in which recurring themes and plots from Elizabeth Gaskell’s work intertwine: the secrets of the human heart and the mysterious destinies of fate that governs one’s life; the eternal clash between feeling and duty; the ability to do good and evil, equally inherent in human nature; responsibility for one’s actions—and the inevitability of payment; the power of love and faith in God, granting salvation and resisting fate.

Most of the stories included in this collection are published in Russian for the first time.