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A convalescent narrator attends weekly gatherings at Mrs. Dawson’s sofa where guests tell a sequence of linked short stories. The narratives vary from aristocratic family dramas and disputes over inheritance to rural tragedies, moral reckonings, and uncanny misfortunes, combining gothic incidents with social realism. Through multiple voices the collection explores class divisions, duty and maternal feeling, pride and its consequences, and the passage of time on ordinary lives. The frame format and conversational tone emphasize intimate confession and reflection, allowing each tale to illuminate different moral dilemmas and domestic hardships across contrasting settings.

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Title: Round the Sofa

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Release date: March 1, 2001 [eBook #2533]
Most recently updated: December 22, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Price, Vanessa Mosher, Jennifer Lee, Alev Akman, Andy Wallace, Audrey Emmitt and Eugenia Corbo

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ROUND THE SOFA

by Elizabeth Gaskell


Contents

MY LADY LUDLOW
AN ACCURSED RACE
THE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS
HALF A LIFE-TIME AGO
THE POOR CLARE
THE HALF-BROTHERS