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About this audiobook
"North and South" is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, written at the request of Charles Dickens and published anonymously in serial form in Household Words from 1854 to 1855 and in book form in 1855. With "Wives and Daughters" (1865) and "Cranford" (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times
This story of the contrast between the values of rural southern England and the industrial north has a psychological complexity that anticipates George Eliot’s novels of provincial life. In "North and South", Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
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.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (239.7K)
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GenreRomance, Children's Literature, Young Adult
Length19 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 2, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - Haste to the Wedding
2Chapter 2 - Roses and Thorns
3Chapter 3 - The More Haste the Worse Speed
4Chapter 4 - Doubts and Difficulties
5Chapter 5 - Decision
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6Chapter 6 - Farewell
7Chapter 7 - New Scenes and Faces
8Chapter 8 - Home Sickness
9Chapter 9 - Dressing for Tea
10Chapter 10 - Wrought Iron and Gold
11Chapter 11 - First Impressions
12Chapter 12 - Morning Calls
13Chapter 13 - A Soft Breeze in a Sultry Place
14Chapter 14 - The Mutiny
15Chapter 15 - Masters and Men
16Chapter 16 - The Shadow of Death
17Chapter 17 - What is a Strike?
18Chapter 18 - Likes and Dislikes
19Chapter 19 - Angel Visits
20Chapter 20 - Men and Gentlemen
21Chapter 21 - The Dark Night
22Chapter 22 - A Blow and its Consequences
23Chapter 23 - Mistakes
24Chapter 24 - Mistakes Cleared Up
25Chapter 25 - Frederick
26Chapter 26 - Mother and Son
27Chapter 27 - Fruit-Piece
28Chapter 28 - Comfort in Sorrow
29Chapter 29 - A Ray of Sunshine
30Chapter 30 - Home at Last
31Chapter 31 - 'Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot?'
32Chapter 32 - Mischances
33Chapter 33 - Peace
34Chapter 34 - False and True
35Chapter 35 - Expiation
36Chapter 36 - Union not always Strength
37Chapter 37 - Looking South
38Chapter 38 - Promises Fulfilled
39Chapter 39 - Making Friends
40Chapter 40 - Out of Tune
41Chapter 41 - The Journey's End
42Chapter 42 - Alone! Alone!
43Chapter 43 - Margaret's Flittin'
44Chapter 44 - Ease, not Peace
45Chapter 45 - Not all a Dream
46Chapter 46 - Once and Now
47Chapter 47 - Something Wanting
48Chapter 48 - 'Ne'er to be found again'
49Chapter 49 - Breathing Tranquility
50Chapter 50 - Changes at Milton
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