North and South North and South

Publisher Description

North and South is set in the fictional town of Milton in the North of England when industrialisation was changing the city. The novel has frequently been favourably compared to the similarly-focused Shirley by the better-known novelist and friend of Gaskell,  Charlotte Brontë. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south,  Margaret Hale settles with her parents in the industrial town of Milton where she witnesses the harsh brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and where employers and workers clash in the first organised strikes. 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 belongs to the nouveaux riches and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret despises. The confrontation between her and Mr Thornton is reminiscent ofElizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, but in the broad context of the harsh industrial North.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
1865
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
746
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
506.7
KB

Customer Reviews

zrizvi ,

Favourite

Absolutely loved this book after watching the 2004 BBC adaption. I am just obsessed with the authors descriptions of the characters thoughts and feelings- they’re so real and relatable!

Hangloumeng ,

Sentimental at times but none the worse for that

Perhaps not as fine as her 'Mary Barton', the book deals with the 19th century world of the British industrial revolution more directly than either Austen or even Dickens, and with the problems of gender and social class too. And, hey, I like sentimental.

sourdough sam ,

Beautiful Writing

I love the classic English in this book. Good story but really disappointing ending.

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