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  • Published: 10 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241814512
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $45.00

North and South




A beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition of Gaskell's most famous novel

'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.

This is a stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Gaskell's famous novel, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

  • Published: 10 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241814512
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $45.00

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