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- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407090887
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
North and South
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- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407090887
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
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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
Ruth, North and South and Mary Barton are at least as good as any of Dickens's novels
Sara Paretsky
Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty
The Times
One of the most perceptive novels of the mid-Victorian era
Glasgow Herald
Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt
Scotsman