by Elizabeth Gaskell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430554
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«North and South» is the Victorian novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Margaret Hale, raised in the south of England, moves to the industrial town of Milton when her father leaves the Church. There she sees the poverty of the workers and clashes with the owner of the textile mill, John Thornton, whose treatment of them conflicts with her sense of justice, while an attraction emerges that defies class differences.
English edition from Penguin Classics, edited by Dorothy Collin and with an introduction by Martin Dodsworth. The novel was originally published in 1855.
For readers of Victorian classics seeking novels of social criticism and character development.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.
