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North and South
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When Margaret Hale is uprooted from the quiet gentility of southern England and thrust into the industrial tumult of Milton, a northern mill town, her world fractures. Confronted with striking workers, choking factories, and a proud, implacable mill owner named John Thornton, Margaret must reckon with...
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When Margaret Hale is uprooted from the quiet gentility of southern England and thrust into the industrial tumult of Milton, a northern mill town, her world fractures. Confronted with striking workers, choking factories, and a proud, implacable mill owner named John Thornton, Margaret must reckon with her deepest convictions about justice, class, power, and love.
First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell's boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power. Gaskell draws the battle lines not only between labour and capital, north and south, but between head and heart. And at the centre stands Margaretβa heroine of intelligence, dignity, and defiance.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781967751372
Publisher: ERIS
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 October 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: ERIS
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 102.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 700
About the Author
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810β1865) was a British novelist, biographer, and social reformer whose work bridges the worlds of Victorian domestic fiction and industrial realism. Best known for novels such as Mary Barton, Cranford, and North and South, she brought a rare moral clarity and emotional intelligence to stories of class conflict, gender roles, and social change. A friend to both Charles Dickens and Charlotte BrontΓ«, Gaskell remains one of the most perceptive chroniclers of 19th-century England.
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