North and South
$39.33
- Hardcover
496 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
A beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition of Gaskell’s most famous novel:
“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 justic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241814512 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241814510 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 622g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 137mm x 206mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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Critics Review
”[An] admirable story … full of character and power”
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Gaskell
Jenny Uglow writes on literature, art, and social history. Her books include award-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Thomas Bewick, as well as a study of Sarah Losh, a surprising Victorian architect and visionary, and group studies including The Lunar Men and the panoramic In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815. She is now writing on Edward Lear.
Jenny lives in Canterbury, and has four grown-up children and seven grandchildren. She was created an OBE in 2008, and was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-2016.
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