Production notes: This ebook of North and South was published by Global Grey in 2018.

This book has 487 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1855.

She excoriates the North, calling attention to its rampant class struggles and emphasis on business rather than the 'human interest.' She is prickly when Henry Lennox seems to mock Helstone, and angry when Thornton challenges her misconceptions of the North. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who has a contemptuous attitude to workers. North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. She brokers no criticism of the South and upholds its aristocratic, slower mode of living. The protagonist is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts have forced him. A study in contrasts between rural southern England and industrial northern England. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the harsh brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and where employers and workers clash in the first organised strikes. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. It is set in the fictional town of Milton in the North of England when industrialisation was changing the city. North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South Elizabeth GaskellĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Sound by Peter Ringrose and Keith Graham. Thornton are challenged and eventually altered as. Her prejudices and assumptions about the North, social class, and Mr. She carries the weight of her familys suffering. When Margaret Hale exchanges her rural life for a northern mill town, she witnesses first hand the poverty of the working classes. She is a deep thinker but is often pushed into quick action and decision. North and South Available on BritBox, Prime Video Elizabeth Gaskells tale of love across the social divide is brought to life in Sandy Welchs four-part adaptation. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. Passionate, haughty, intelligent, and self-possessed, Margaret is the novels heroine.

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