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Mary Barton (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Shirley Foster (Editor) Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953835-2 / 0199538352 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953835-5 / 9780199538355 Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary |