This Smith & Taylor Classics keepsake edition reintroduces Elizabeth Gaskell's enduring tale of love, labor, and social change.Set amid the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of the industrial revolution, North and South is a forceful, brilliant, and romantic novel about freedom and the cost of profit.When Margaret Hale, a minister's daughter, relocates with her family to Milton in the north of England she witnesses firsthand the brutal working conditions in Milton's factories and mills.
About the Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was born in London but she spent her formative years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and the north of England.
480 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
Series Name: Smith & Taylor Classics

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"Set amid the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of the industrial revolution, North and South is a forceful, brilliant, and romantic novel about freedom and the cost of profit."--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

This Smith & Taylor Classics keepsake edition reintroduces Elizabeth Gaskell's enduring tale of love, labor, and social change.

Set amid the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of the industrial revolution, North and South is a forceful, brilliant, and romantic novel about freedom and the cost of profit.

When Margaret Hale, a minister's daughter, relocates with her family to Milton in the north of England she witnesses firsthand the brutal working conditions in Milton's factories and mills. Her liberal education has given her strong convictions, but little common sense, and her pity finds a mostly unsympathetic ear among the gruff mill workers and their families.

Magaret is most vexed by a local industrialist and mill-owner, John Thornton, whom she considers contemptuous and bull-headed. But through her clashes with Thornton and her growing affinity for the workers and their plight for survival, Margaret comes to see the world as a much more complicated place, and that her earlier pity was not charity but a kind of arrogance.

Thunderously philosophical and compulsively readable, North and South is a vivid portrayal of not only unthinking conformity or selfish individualism, but the power of vulnerability and change.

Featuring a conversational afterword from writer Adrienne Garcia-Specht and actor Morgan Spector.

About the Author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was born in London but she spent her formative years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and the north of England. In 1832 she married Unitarian minister Reverend William Gaskell of Manchester. As well as leading a busy domestic life as minister's wife and mother of four daughters, she worked among the poor, traveled frequently, and wrote. Mary Barton (1848) was her first success. She met Charlotte Brontë in 1850 and wrote the controversial biography of her late friend's life, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857).

Adrienne Garcia-Specht is a writer and Elizabeth Gaskell enthusiast. She earned a master's degree in English from Syracuse University and lives on California's Central Coast.

Morgan Spector is an actor and producer who is best known for his leading role as George Russell in The Gilded Age.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x 1.4 Inches (D)

Weight: .85 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Series Title: Smith & Taylor Classics

Sub-Genre: Classics

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Number of Pages: 480

Publisher: Smith & Taylor Classics

Format: Paperback

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Language: English

Street Date: May 6, 2025

TCIN: 93954845

UPC: 9781961884366

Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-4954

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Q: What themes are explored in North and South?

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A: The novel explores themes of love, labor, social change, and the moral complexities of the industrial revolution.
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Q: Who wrote the afterword in this edition?

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A: Adrienne Garcia-Specht, a writer and Elizabeth Gaskell enthusiast, contributed the conversational afterword.
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Q: Who is the main character in the novel?

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A: The main character is Margaret Hale, a minister's daughter navigating the challenges of industrial society.
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Q: What is the historical context of the book?

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A: The story is set during the industrial revolution, highlighting changes in society, spirituality, and morality.
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