North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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"North and South" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a social novel published in 1854–55. When Margaret Hale is forced to leave her peaceful rural home in southern England for the industrial town of Milton, she confronts the harsh realities of the Industrial Revolution. She witnesses bitter clashes between mill owners and workers during the first strikes, and finds herself in conflict with John Thornton, a proud cotton-mill owner who scorns his laborers.
The novel explores her evolving understanding of industrial society and her complicated relationship with Thornton. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
|---|---|
| Title | North and South |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_and_South_(Gaskell_novel) |
| Credits | Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | Young women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Children of clergy -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Subject | England, Northern -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 4276 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2003 |
| Last Update | Jan 16, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 4635 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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