North And South
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140434240
ISBN 13
9780140434248
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
449
Abstract
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, 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 the local mill-workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
Description
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's great "Condition of England" novel which introduces in Margaret Hale one of Victorian literature's most original heroines. Dickens began publishing it in "Household Words" in 1854 and praised it as an 'admirable story...full of character and power.' It is not only the author's finest novel, but a rare success in English fiction in its fusion of individual feeling with social concern. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
