The Penguin English Library edition of North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell' How am I to dress up in my finery & go off & away to smart parties after the sorrow I have seen today?' Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate richly dramatic novel features one of the most original & 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 & a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton North & South depicts a young woman discovering herself in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people & what brings them together The Penguin English Library
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With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman University of Hull Set in the mid-19th century & written from the author's first-hand experience North & South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal & public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society This is a tale of hard-won triumphs
- of rational thought over prejudice & of humane care over blind deference to the market Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems & possibilities which are still challenging a hundred & fifty years later the complex relationships public & private between men & women of different classes
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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 ...

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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" ...