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North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

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. Week 2: Romance

* Week 2: Introduction
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Jan 02, 2015 Rachel rated it really liked it

So I came to this book after watching the BBC miniseries and thinking the end too fast and too easy, I decided to dig out the book. I wanted to read the book to find if it was better as it could voice thoughts of love and rejection in a way TV can only convey through anxious looks. Thankfully I was right and enjoyed the book very much.

I found myself liking Mr Thornton and Miss Hale far better in the novel simply for the time devoted to them. The ending is entirely different and I believe more s ...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Saara rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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North and South is not so much about the differences between those two regions of England, although this topic is often and extensively touched upon in the novel; nay, it is more about the people and how their lives come to intertwine. The vicar of Helstone, Mr Hale, suffers a crisis of conscience and leaves the Church, removing himself and his family — wife and adult daughter — far away to the North. The industrial town of Milton, to be exact. There, lowered in station and lonely as they are, t ...more

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