North and South
Presents a series of unabridged and abridged recordings of Elizabeth Gaskell's major novels. This title follows our widely-praised recording of 'Cranford' (2008), transporting the listener to the heart of Victorian England by delineating the social landscape and an unlikely romance which...
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Presents a series of unabridged and abridged recordings of Elizabeth Gaskell's major novels. This title follows our widely-praised recording of 'Cranford' (2008), transporting the listener to the heart of Victorian England by delineating the social landscape and an unlikely romance which flourishes within it.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9789626341858 (9626341858)
Publish date: February 1st 2010
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Edition language: English
How to tag this. Know this though: if you expect a romance... well, there is romance, but it's not really the meat of the story. More like a sprinkled seasoning to give the excuse, and a happy ending I guess. What this is about is industrialization, the theme for most characters was the failure ...
Quite a while ago I read the synopsis and purchased North and South from Audible. I haven’t been a great lover of fiction set in this era in the past (1800’s) and have always preferred reading to listening, so kept putting it off. I wish I hadn’t, though, because this was probably the finest reading...
Book: North and South Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Genre: Fiction/Social Commentary/Coming-Of-Age/Romance Summary: 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. Initial...
I have been curious about reading Gaskell for a while, and my first novel of hers turned out to be this one that mixes romance with social issues relevant to its time in the mid-19th century. The main character, Margaret Hale, initially seems rather contradictory to me. She is the daughter of a coun...
Sin previo aviso, la vida de Margaret Hale da un giro de 180 grados y debe dejar el pueblo de Helstone para mudarse con su familia a Milton, en el otro extremo de Inglaterra. En el sur, la vida rural es simple y tranquila, adecuándose a su personalidad y dejando que los días pasen sin apuro, complem...
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