North and South (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519595508)

Vendor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Format: Paperback
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North and South

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North and South

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Format: Paperback
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North and South is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Along with Wives and Daughters and Cranford, it is one of her best known novels and has been adapted for television twice, in 1975 and 2004. The latter version renewed interest in the novel and gained it a wider audience. North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and employers and workers clashing in the first organised strikes. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who belongs to the nouveaux riches and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret despises. Gaskell based Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister.

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN-10: 1519595506
ISBN-13: 9781519595508
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2015
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
By Elizabeth Gaskell
By Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was a English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell was also the first to write a biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was published in 1857. Her works include the novels Mary Barton (1848), Cranford (1851-53), Ruth (1853), North and South (1854-55), Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story (1865).

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