North and South
$19.76
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
25 January 1996
Summary
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When her father leaves the Church, 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 local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice.
In North and South Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434248 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140434240 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell, Patricia Ingham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 25 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 129mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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”[An] admirable story … full of character and power” Charles Dickens
”[An] admirable story … full of character and power” Charles Dickens
About The Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. She is the General Editor of all Hardy’s fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell’s North and South for the series.
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