Haworth's

Frances Hodgson Burnett's Haworth's opens in the hard, smoke-dark world of Yorkshire industry, where fortunes are made and broken as surely as lives. On the twentieth anniversary of a desperate winter night, the men remember the starving boy found at the foundry door: Jem Haworth, now master of the iron works, proud, forceful, and determined to build the greatest business in England. Yet his triumph is shadowed by the arrival of Stephen Murdoch, a worn-out inventor who has spent thirty years chasing one impossible dream, and by the son, Hilary, who must decide what kind of future can be salvaged from failure. As Haworth's grows, so do the pressures around it: class tension, family pride, ambition, loyalty, and the moral cost of power. Miss Ffrench and Rachel Ffrench bring courage and social ease into a divided world, while Granny Dixon, the Briarleys, and the uneasy Mr. Briarley sharpen the town's gossip and suspicion. When labor unrest spreads, Haworth answers with defiance, rallying his men and confronting strike fever with startling boldness. Romance, realism, and suspense intertwine as business, community, and private secrets collide in a powerful industrial drama. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.