North and South Format: Paperback

Gaskell, Elizabeth (Author); Ingham, Patricia (Editor/introduction)

ISBN 10: 0140434240 / ISBN 13: 9780140434248

Published by Penguin Random House, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: North and South Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140434240
• ISBN 13: 9780140434248
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

As relevant now as when it was first published, this classic tale weaves a love story with the clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals

"[An] admirable story ... full of character and power" —Charles Dickens

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 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 Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature. In her introduction Patricia Ingham examines Elizabeth Gaskell's treatment of geographical, economic and class differences, and the male and female roles portrayed in the novel. This edition also includes further reading, notes and a useful glossary.

About the Author

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.