North and South
, by Gaskell, Elizabeth- ISBN: 9780486479521 | 0486479528
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/13/2012
This richly textured novel of courtship and marriage explores the dichotomies between the rigidly stratified South and the upstart industrial North during England's mid-Victorian era. Called "an admirable story" by Charles Dickens, the book is the turbulent tale of Margaret Hale, a woman torn between her sympathy for discontented millworkers and her love for the factory's wealthy owner.