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North and South (Penguin Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780140434248
ISBN: 0140434240
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: June 01, 1996
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Editorial Review:
When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. In "North and South", Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Will read it again and again!
After having seen the BBC's version of North & South, I couldn't wait to read the book. I wasn't disappointed at all! Although well over 400 pages, the book moved along at a good pace. The characters were all very well developed and very interesting. The best part was that Mrs. Gaskell writes from multiple perspectives rather than from just one POV. It was refreshing to find out just what Mr. Thornton WAS thinking! :-) The charcacters were not so numerous to be confusing, and each one was intersting ... Read More
Rating: - An excelent book to any person
You have to get familiar with the characters and then you slowly star to love them all.
At the beggining I felt sorry to poor Mr Lennox,he was a Miss Hale's friend but he took her love for granted and he was rejected by her.
Miss Hale is a nineteen years old girl who has always lived in a confortable way with her parents but some day Mr Hale finds that his faith has change and he can not continue in the church with such doubts and they decided to move to the north of England.
Mrs Hale gets ... Read More
Rating:  - A Botch. Not as Good as the Splendid 2004 BBC Miniseries.
The best thing about Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South" may be that it inspired the superlative 2004 BBC miniseries by the same name. In fact, the miniseries was so good the day I finished watching it I began reading Gaskell's novel.
Given its failings, it is miraculous that director Brian Percival, writer Sandy Welch, Martin Phipps, who wrote the score, and the entire excellent cast were able to create such a stunning miniseries out of this less than stellar novel.
"North and ... Read More
Rating: - "brutalised both as to his pleasures and his pains"
North and South is a very ambitious novel, and the fact that it has flaws in the execution do not detract from its successes.
It is, first of all, a social novel. It explores the differences between the industrialized north of England and the older more agricultural life in the south. The characters are all gripped by the hand of change-- changing religious beliefs, changing relationships between master and servant, changing expectations of family life and changing socio-economic conditions. What ... Read More
Rating: - Surprisingly modern tale of class conflict, management theory, and of course, love
I read the book, like many other reviewers here, after I had watched the brilliant BBC miniseries starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe. I definitely agree with the comments of many reviewers here that you somehow seem to develop a finer appreciation of the nuances of both after doing that.
A lot of reviewers have covered the ground admirably on the story itself, so I won't go into too much detail on that. In addition to the fine development of plot and characters alike, what I found refreshing ... Read More
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