North and South

Written by:
Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by:
Heather Wilds

Unabridged Audiobook

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1
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1
Release Date
December 2016
Duration
18 hours 28 minutes
Summary
As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skillfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. 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 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. In North and South Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
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Well what can I say except to say another amazing book from Elizabeth Gaskell. The narrator brought the book into life. The way she presented each character was supper. This book looks into the lifestyle of different class of people in 18 century. The life of aristocrats how self centred they were. And lower class. How they struggled in life just to put a roof over their head and food on the table.

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