El trabajo de una noche oscura (A Dark Night's Work)

Escrito por Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrado por Elvira Garcia

Hamley es un pequeño pueblo donde Edward Wilkins ejerce como abogado, al igual que hizo su padre antes que él. Su habilidad para contar historias y su aguda inteligencia permiten que se gane la simpatía de los nobles locales, aunque por supuesto, nunca lo considerarán como un igual y lo sabe. Conmocionado por la muerte de su esposa y su segunda hija, el señor Wilkins se centra en su hija mayor, Ellinor, cuya vida parece perfecta: está enamorada del joven señor Corbet, un estudiante de derecho brillante y ambicioso; todo le sonríe, hasta el punto de que no advierte el evidente estado de decadencia de su padre, quien, sintiendo el peso de su inadaptación social y de su propio fracaso, vuelca su descontento en vicios, lujos y alcohol. Todo se detiene una noche, una noche oscura en la que Ellinor es testigo de un crimen. Y será este acontecimiento el que ponga patas arriba su vida de un modo dramático.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: BookaVivo
• Traductor: Tatiana Marco Marín
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 20 feb 2023
• ISBN: 9798886572711

Elizabeth Gaskell

Mrs Gaskell was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London in 1810. Her mother Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, where she lived with an aunt at Knutsford, a town she would later immortalise as Cranford. In 1832, she married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell (who had a literary career of his own), and they settled in Manchester. The industrial surroundings offered her inspiration for her novels. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her other novels are Cranford (1853) and North and South (1855). Elizabeth met Charlotte Brontë in 1850, and they struck up a great friendship. After Charlotte's death in 1855, her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography to counteract gossip and speculation. The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857. Gaskell was also a skilled proponent of the ghost story. Her last novel, Wives and Daughters, said by many to be her most mature work remained unfinished at the time of her death in 1865.