North and South
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About This Book
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 becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.InNorth and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
53
Chapters
~636 min
Est. Listening Time
English
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4.2 ★
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Chapters (53)
- North and South
- CHAPTER I. “HASTE TO THE WEDDING.”
- CHAPTER II. ROSES AND THORNS.
- CHAPTER III. “THE MORE HASTE THE WORSE SPEED.”
- CHAPTER IV. DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES.
- CHAPTER V. DECISION.
- CHAPTER VI. FAREWELL.
- CHAPTER VII. NEW SCENES AND FACES.
- CHAPTER VIII. HOME SICKNESS.
- CHAPTER IX. DRESSING FOR TEA.
- CHAPTER X. WROUGHT IRON AND GOLD.
- CHAPTER XI. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
- CHAPTER XII. MORNING CALLS.
- CHAPTER XIII. SOFT BREEZE IN A SULTRY PLACE.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE MEETING.
- CHAPTER XV MASTERS AND MEN.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
- CHAPTER XVII. WHAT IS A STRIKE?
- CHAPTER XVIII. LIKES AND DISLIKES.
- CHAPTER XIX. ANGEL VISITS.
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"North and South" was written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. It is classified as Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature.
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