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When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskell's 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh,"... Read Full Overview

Love, ambition, and revolution collide in this epic tale of North and South. Enjoy the ease of reading with our carefully crafted large print edition. - Enhanced for your visual pleasure with a large and clear 16pt font. - Professionally formatted for a visually appealing reading... Read Full Overview

Set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England, "North and South" is Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel that contrasts the different ways of life in the two respective regions of England. In the North the emerging industrialized society is sharply contrasted... Read Full Overview

'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience' Joanna Trollope

Large Print (Reader Classics) are printed with easy-to-read fonts and feature type size which conforms to large print industry standards. North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural... Read Full Overview

North and South tells a tale of contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south. First published in 1854, the story centers around young Margaret Hale from the South who moves with her parents to a fictional industrial town in the North... Read Full Overview

Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town... Read Full Overview

Margaret Hale se ve obligada a trasladarse, por circunstancias familiares, del sur rural de Inglaterra a una ciudad industrial del norte y su vida cambia dr sticamente. Margaret ir dejando atr s sus prejuicios t picos de la aristocracia rural inglesa, a medida que conozca... Read Full Overview

'North and South' is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme... Read Full Overview

North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). The latter version renewed interest... Read Full Overview

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, 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... Read Full Overview

Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town... Read Full Overview

'Wooed and married and a'.''Edith ' said Margaret, gently, 'Edith 'But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania had ever... Read Full Overview

As Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania had ever been dressed in white muslin and blue ribbons, and had fallen asleep on... Read Full Overview