North and South (Oxford World's Classics)
by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author: Elizabeth GaskellIntroduction: Sally Shuttleworth
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-11-19
ISBN: 0192831941
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: A socially-aware and unsentimental Victorian novel.
Summary: 4 Stars
Entertaining Victorian novel in which Margaret Hale experiences the culture clash between the sleepy rural south of England and the northern town of Milton which is in the throes of economic and social revolution. Margaret has to cope with a dispirited father, dying mother and fugitive brother while making a brave, if somewhat naive, intervention in a bitter industrial dispute. It is obvious from the beginning that she is going to fall in love with the mill owner Mr Thornton, who loves and hates her with equal passion, but much enjoyment lies in the working out of the reltionship and the overcoming of misunderstandings. Occasionally rather patronising about the working class (and especially the Irish), Mrs Gaskell nevertheless shows a lively and even-handed understanding of the class struggle in Nineteenth Century England and she handles intense emotions with a refreshing lack of sentimentality. I would just like to add that I find it astonishing that it is possible to buy a book of this quality, affording so much pleasure, for the price of half a pint of lager!
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