North and South - Couverture souple

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140620192 ISBN 13 : 9780140620191

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

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 and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848, winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals. She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë, whose biography she wrote.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140620192
• ISBN 13: 9780140620191
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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