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North and South
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  • Published: 1 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099511489
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $24.00

North and South

  • Elizabeth Gaskell
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23 May 2012
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25 Jan 1996
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10 Nov 2026
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8 Dec 2026
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23 May 2012
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1 July 2010
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3 July 2006
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27 Oct 2022
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26 Sept 2019
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26 Apr 2012
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'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

Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOW
  • Published: 1 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099511489
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $24.00
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Praise for North and South

Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty

The Times

Ruth, North and South and Mary Barton are at least as good as any of Dickens's novels

Sara Paretsky

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

North And South explores themes that still seem strikingly modern. One hundred and fifty years after it appeared, the North-South divide - and the social and economic gulf it implies - remains intact

Daily Mail