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Ruth
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. At its time, this book outraged and shocked Victorian society. It is one of the few works of nineteenth-century English literature where the main character is a "fallen woman".
The novel describes the life of a young woman from a poor family who became an orphan very early. She has to pay for her love to the aristocrat till the end of her life…