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North and South
North and South
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May 1, 2018
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May 31, 2018
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Melanti
May 08, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: whispersync, e-book, classics, audiobook, historical, group-reads, 1001-books
This is sort of akin to taking the plot from one of Jane Austen's books (though none of the humor) and using that as an excuse to talk about social and labor issues during the industrial revolution. There IS a romance - a very leisurely one - but really, that romance seems more like an excuse to involve a neutral party who is neither factory owner nor factory worker, in order to have someone who can travel freely between both sides and get their points of view.

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