North and South (Abridged Fiction)
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1.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Elizabeth Gaskell highlights the difference between the middle and working classes in this tale set in the time of the Industrial Revolution. A largely autobiographical story, she also highlights the good that each group can do for each other, and the friendships and understandings that can blossom between two seemingly irreconcilable means and modes of life. Gaskell shows her great love of people, and of love itself, in this touching and enlightening tale.
Customer Reviews
north and south
Silly me for buying an abridged version so the beauty and subtlety of Elizabeth Gaskell's writing was lost. The thing I found hardest to bear though was the reader's cod northern accent which was absolutely dire. Henry Thornton was reduced to sounding like a village idiot and not the romantic lead. I was very disappointed.