As relevant now as when it was first published Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit & humanitarian ideals This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton Margaret becomes aware of the poverty & suffering of local mill workers & develops a passionate sense of social justice This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner & self-made man John Thornton as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction In North & South Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern & in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature In her introduction Patricia Ingham examines Elizabeth Gaskell's treatment of geographical economic & class differences & the male & female roles portrayed in the novel This edition also

Includes:: further reading notes & a useful glossary Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell & had four daughters & one son who died in infancy Her first novel Mary Barton was published in 1848 winning the attention of Charles Dickens & most of her later work was published in his journals including Cranford (1853) serialised in Dickens's Household Words She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Bronte whose biography she wrote If you enjoyed North & South you might like Jane Austen's Persuasion also available in Penguin Classics' An admirable story full of character & power' Charles Dickens

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'she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority & how much might be set apart for freedom in working' North & South is a novel about rebellion Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman & from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority & obedience Through the story of Margaret Hale the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class & gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers & her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder John Thornton This new revised & expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social & medical debate ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All episodes of the mini-series based on the book trilogy set in the 1800s in the years leading up to the Civil War Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) & George Hazard (James Read) form a strong friendship at the United States Military Academy However their friendship is later put to the test when they find each of their families are on opposing sides of the war The drama also stars Kirstie Alley with David Carradine Elizabeth Taylor Hal Holbrook Gene Kelly Robert Mitchum & Johnny Cash making guest appearances ...

Adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell&s novel Margaret Hale a southerner has newly moved to the industrial town of Milton When the workers of a cotton mill strike Margaret immediately takes their side already displaying a strong dislike for the mill&s owner John Thornton As the conflict between Margaret & Thornton intensifies however Margaret finds herself doing the unspeakablefalling in love ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Master Of Suspense Presents A 3000-Mile Chase Across America! Cary Grant teams with Hitchcock for the fourth & final time in this superlative espionage caper judged one of the American Film Institute&s Top 100 American Films & spruced up with a new digital transfer & remixed Dolby Surround Stereo Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) & counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) & variously abducted framed for murder chased & in another signature set piece crop-dusted He also holds on for dear life from that famed carved rock (for which back lot sets were used) But don&t expect the Master Of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Summer 1936 Bearing the expectations of a nation & their Fuhrer two climbers set out to be the first to conquer the "last great problem of the Alps" But soon their ascent becomes a race for survival threatened by injury & storms of unimaginable fury Before long their quest becomes a pusle-pounding race against both time & the awesome forces of nature Shot through with scenes of gut-wrenching peril rivaling those of Touching The Void Northface is a powerful breathtaking tale of human endurance on a terrifying landscape; towering over 1800m the North Face has claimed over 60 lives & earned itself the grimly appropriate nickname "the murder wall" ...

For one long intense week in October 1962 it looked like the world might end as the Cuban Missile Crisis brought with it an East-West st&-off & the possibility of nuclear holocaust This dark bittersweet novel evokes the fear & confusion of the period through the experience of a young boy caught up in South Africa's political unrest following the Sharpeville massacre Nelson Mandela's arrest & the State of Emergency Paul sensitive isolated & desperate to fit in despite his English parents has the chance to join the most popular pupil's gang & will do whatever is required to please its Afrikaans' ringleader When a friend of Paul's parents is put under house-arrest the boys become suddenly aware of a world beyond the school boundaries the far-right is in the ascendant & South Africa is no longer safe Added to this sense of unease Paul's growing realisation of his sexuality sets him still further apart from his peers Now a man in his sixties & living abroad he is drawn back to Pretoria to revisit his boyhood home & make sense of the part he unwittingly played in the arrest of a charismatic teacher & his African lover ...

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