North and South: Penguin Classics

by Elizabeth Gaskell Narrated by Gemma Whelan

Overview

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Gemma Whelan, best known for her roles in Game of Thrones, Gentleman Jack and Upstart Crow. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Patricia Ingham.

When her father leaves the Church, 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 local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice.

In North and South Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern and in Margaret Hale created one of the mostoriginal heroines of Victorian literature.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience."  —Joanna Trollope, author, Second Honeymoon


"Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty."  —The Times



"Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt."  —Scotsman



"One of the most perceptive novels of the mid-Victorian era."  —Glasgow Herald

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173979506
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	09/26/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	748,298

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