North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - ISBN: 9780141198927
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Country girl confronts industrial north, igniting love and social justice.

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    560 pages

  • Release Date

    23 May 2012

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Summary

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Elizabeth Gaskell’s compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationsh…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141198927
ISBN-10:0141198923
Author:Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Release Date:23 May 2012
Weight:398g
Dimensions:200mm x 130mm x 27mm
Series:The Penguin English Library
About The Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) moved from the London of her childhood to Knutsford and later Manchester. She wrote six novels, numerous short stories and novellas, and the biography of her great friend Charlotte Bronte. Gaskell was at first published anonymously but later in her own name. Much of her work was serialised in Charles Dickens’s widely-read literary weekly, Household Words. Gaskell’s novels Mary Barton, Cranford, and Wives and Daughters are also published in the Penguin English Library.

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