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A young orphan, Ruth Hilton, is seduced and then abandoned by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. She is left to bring up her child in a society that offers her no protection and seems to punish such innocence. Taken in by a Dissenting minister in the guise of a widow, she is given a chance to bring up her son whom she loves above all else. But the condemnation of society always threatens, and despite Ruth's rejection of his belated offer of marriage, Bellingham's reappearance precipitates her exposure and rejection. Only her heroic self-sacrifice in the midst of a cholera epidemic regains her her position, but too late. This was a crusading novel when it was published in 1853, and aroused almost as much censure for its shocking scenes as it did sympathy for the heroine.
 
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December 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1605205613Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-60520-561-3 / 9781605205618 (USA edition)
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August 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0554285428Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-554-28542-8 / 978-0-554-28542-9 (USA edition)
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August 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0554378450Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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April 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1934648485Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 1-934648-48-5 / 9781934648483 (USA edition)
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March 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1582874743Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-58287-474-3 / 9781582874746 (USA edition)
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March 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1582879575Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-58287-957-5 / 9781582879574 (USA edition)
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January 2006 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000ML9S1OTitle: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
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November 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1414207808Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4142-0780-8 / 978-1-4142-0780-3 (USA edition)
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October 2002 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1404329080Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4043-2908-0 / 978-1-4043-2908-9 (USA edition)
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June 1975 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0824015819Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Robert Lee Wolff
ISBN: 0-8240-1581-9 / 978-0-8240-1581-7 (USA edition)
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April 1967 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0460006738Title: Ruth (Everyman's Library)
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 0-460-00673-8 / 978-0-460-00673-6 (UK edition)
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December 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0199538247Title: Ruth (Oxford World's Classics)
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 0-19-953824-7 / 978-0-19-953824-9 (UK edition)
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December 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1605205605Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-60520-560-5 / 9781605205601 (USA edition)
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August 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1604594748Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-60459-474-8 / 9781604594744 (USA edition)
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July 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1605891711Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 1-60589-171-1 / 9781605891712 (USA edition)
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April 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1845886232Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 1-84588-623-2 / 9781845886233 (UK edition)
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April 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1934648493Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-934648-49-3 / 9781934648490 (USA edition)
Publisher: Norilana Books
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October 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 143465673XTitle: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4346-5673-X / 978-1-4346-5673-5
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October 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1434656748Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4346-5674-8 / 978-1-4346-5674-2
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September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0554074656Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-554-07465-6 / 978-0-554-07465-8 (USA edition)
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September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 055418169XTitle: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-554-18169-X / 978-0-554-18169-1 (USA edition)
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February 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1406809136Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4068-0913-6 / 978-1-4068-0913-8 (UK edition)
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November 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1406956686Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4069-5668-6 / 978-1-4069-5668-9 (UK edition)
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August 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0140434305Title: Ruth (Penguin Classics)
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Angus Easson
ISBN: 0-14-043430-5 / 978-0-14-043430-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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November 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1414207816Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4142-0781-6 / 978-1-4142-0781-0 (USA edition)
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October 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1404329099Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-4043-2909-9 / 978-1-4043-2909-6 (USA edition)
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July 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0543878767Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-543-87876-7 / 978-0-543-87876-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
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July 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0543878805Title: Ruth: A Novel. Volume 1
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-543-87880-5 / 978-0-543-87880-9 (USA edition)
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February 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0460876600Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Nancy Henry
ISBN: 0-460-87660-0 / 978-0-460-87660-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Phoenix
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June 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0003302253Title: Ruth: Playscript (Collins Classics Plus)
Author(s): Robert Leeson, Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 0-00-330225-3 / 978-0-00-330225-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Collins Educational
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May 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0192834762Title: Ruth (Oxford World's Classics)
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Alan Shelston
ISBN: 0-19-283476-2 / 978-0-19-283476-8 (UK edition)
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January 1991 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0460116738Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-460-11673-8 / 978-0-460-11673-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
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August 1985 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0192816691Title: Ruth (World's Classics)
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 0-19-281669-1 / 978-0-19-281669-6 (UK edition)
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September 1982 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0460016733Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-460-01673-3 / 978-0-460-01673-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Audio Editions

June 2003 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0754055876Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0-7540-5587-6 / 978-0-7540-5587-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
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October 1999 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0754003817Title: Ruth: Complete & Unabridged (1930's Trilogy)
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 0-7540-0381-7 / 978-0-7540-0381-6 (UK edition)
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January 1995 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1556853769Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 1-55685-376-9 / 9781556853760 (USA edition)
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June 2008 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B001BUKKUSTitle: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
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June 2008 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B001HQHBC6Title: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
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September 2007 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000W5MIBCTitle: RUTH
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: Evergreen Review, Inc.
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July 2004 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000FC21KUTitle: Ruth
Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell
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