North and South - Softcover

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140620192 ISBN 13: 9780140620191

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice.

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Review:

Elizabeth Gaskell's novels explore the social divisions of the 19th century with a vivacity that resonates in the Britain of today when they are widening again. Which isn't to say that they are worthy and consequently dull. No, Gaskell's books are rich with romance and peopled by characters the listener truly feels for. North and South takes Margaret Hale, daughter of a C of E vicar, from the drawing rooms of London and the exquisite beauty of the New Forest to the grim northern industrial town of Milton where, appalled by the conditions his workers live and work in, she finds herself in conflict with mill owner John Thornton. Excellent reading by Claire Wille. --Kati Nicholl,The Daily Express

Book Description:

Elizabeth Gaskell's Victorian love story, set in the mill towns of the industrial North of England

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140620192
• ISBN 13: 9780140620191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528