Hand and heart. Gaskell E.

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) belongs to a bright galaxy of famous English novelists and, along with the Charlotte Bronte, occupies the most honorable place among the “literary ladies” of the Victorian era, and her works are recognized as master of world classics. Among them are the novels “Mary Barton”, “Krenford”, “North and South”, “Wives and Daughters”, etc. The author’s real collection is presented “Small Prose” by the author, a collection of stories written in different years of life, on the pages of which they come to life Pictures from the life of "good old England."

These are a variety of stories - instructive, mystical, touching and curious - in which through topics and plots of the work of Elizabeth Gaskell are interwoven: the secrets of the human heart and the mysterious destruction of the rock, which controls fate; eternal confrontation of feelings and duty; the ability to create good and evil equally inherent in a person, and responsibility for their actions, and at the same time the inevitability of reckoning; The power of love and faith in God, giving salvation and opposing fate.

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