Curious, If True - Strange Tales

Curious, If True - Strange Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from.
I was just a girl in the village school, when, one day, your grandmother came in to ask the mistress if there was any schol This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.