North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Naipaul, Shiva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140188266 ISBN 13: 9780140188264

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1996

Synopsis

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery is brilliantly documented in this intimate, comic and controversial portrayal of a continent on the brink of change.

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Product Description:

Edition Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, 1980. ISBN: 0-14-018826-6. PAPERBACK. 350 pages. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the unread book remains in very good condition throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

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. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In "North and South", Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140188266
• ISBN 13: 9780140188264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352