North and South
$40.15
- 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 |
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| 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: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 132mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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”[An] admirable story … full of character and power”
–Charles Dickens
About The Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was born in London but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848, winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals. She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë, whose biography she wrote.
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