North and South

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Penguin UK, 26 avr. 2012 - 560 pages

With an essay by V. S. Pritchett.

'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'

Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North and South depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.

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Table des matières

Haste to the Wedding
Roses and Thorns
The More Haste the Worse Speed
Doubts andDifficulties
Decision
Farewell
New Scenes and Faces
Wrought Iron and Gold
Mistakes Cleared
Frederick
Mother and
Fruitpiece
Comfort in Sorrow
A Ray
of Sunshine 30 Home at Last 31 Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot?
Mischances

First Impressions
Morning Calls 13 A Soft Breezein aSultryPlace 14 The Meeting
Masters and
The Shadow of Death
What aStrike? 18 Likes and Dislikes 19 Angel Visits
Men and Gentlemen
The Dark Night
A Blow and Its Consequences
Mistakes
Peace
False True 35 Expiation 36 Union Not Always Strength
Looking South
Promises Fulfilled
Making Friends 40 Out of Tune 41 The Journeys
Alone Alone 43 Margarets Flittin 44 Ease Not Peace 45 Not All a Dream
Once and
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À propos de l'auteur (2012)

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) herself moved from South to North in her youth, from the London of her childhood to Knutsford and later Manchester. Writer of six novels, numerous short stories and novellas and the biography of her great friend Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell was at first published anonymously but later in her own name. Much of her work was serialised in Charles Dickens's widely-read literary weekly, Household Words.

Gaskell's novels Mary Barton, Cranford and Wives and Daughters are also published in the Penguin English Library.

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