North and South (Abridged Fiction)
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
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 (Abridged)
Do not buy this abridged version! All the political and cultural history of the Industrial Revolution and class conflict has been cut out, leaving only half of the plot intact. In the original story, the main character makes friends among the workers as well as the managers and owners of the cotton mills and learns about the working conditions that led to the movement to unionize. She is torn between her friends in the working class and her upper class background.