North and South - Couverture souple

Gaskell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140430555 ISBN 13 : 9780140430554

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

This novel is a study of the contrast between the values and habits of rural southern England and industrial northern England. The heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts force him to resign his Hampshire living and to move with his family to a northern city.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light. First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale.

Quatrième de couverture

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOW

'Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty' The Times

Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.

See also: Mary Barton

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140430555
• ISBN 13: 9780140430554
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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