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  • Published: 23 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141198927
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $19.99

North and South




Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library

The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'

Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North and South depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

  • Published: 23 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141198927
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $19.99

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