North and South (Illustrated)
England famously succumbed to both the wealth generated – and the overwhelming suffering and degradation caused – by industrialization, and it is this which forms the foundational conflict of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Seen through the eyes of her compassionate but haughty protagonist...
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England famously succumbed to both the wealth generated – and the overwhelming suffering and degradation caused – by industrialization, and it is this which forms the foundational conflict of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Seen through the eyes of her compassionate but haughty protagonist Margaret Hale, the poor are depicted with unflinching realism and detail, while the tension between worker and foreman is tempered by the love – very much in the vein of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy – which blossoms between Margaret and John Thornton, a local mill owner who was born in poverty, yet grew prosperous with hard work and ambition.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00EX9MJ80
Pages no: 530
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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