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North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

Start date: March 1, 2016

Finish date: March 31, 2016

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Aug 27, 2015 Amle rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, read-in-english

Margaret Hale is uprooted from her idyllic, green south, thrust into the busy, and bustling industrial town of Milton. The town is ugly and the only joy her new home provides comes from her new acquaintances, poor as they may be. The harsh injustice in the conditions of the workers, the poverty, the sharp contrasts to anything she has ever seen before throws her feelings into uproar towards the masters of the mills and factories. Her father has befriended such a man, a John Thornton. With Margar ...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Roni Roshni rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-owned

seldom has any other book made me move to tears and fascinated me so much. i have had a long standing relationship with classics and gaskell is a new addition . and frankly i wonder how it took so long. she writes her books without the normal elaboration of human characters or the surroundings as was done during that time by dickens,hardy,austen etc.. so the books were quiet fast to read and easy too.but oh so charming.and they caught everything as they should be ie. quite perfectly..

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