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North and South (Oxford World's Classics)
by Elizabeth Gaskell
from Oxford University Press, USA

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Will read it again and again!
  After having seen the BBC's version of North & South, I couldn't wait to read the book. I wasn't disappointed at all! Although well over 400 pages, the book moved along at a good pace. The characters were all very well developed and very interesting. The best part was that Mrs. Gaskell writes from multiple perspectives rather than from just one POV. It was refreshing to find out just what Mr. Thornton WAS thinking! :-) The charcacters were not so numerous to be confusing, and each one was intersting and... more info

• An excelent book to any person
  You have to get familiar with the characters and then you slowly star to love them all.
  At the beggining I felt sorry to poor Mr Lennox,he was a Miss Hale's friend but he took her love for granted and he was rejected by her.
  Miss Hale is a nineteen years old girl who has always lived in a confortable way with her parents but some day Mr Hale finds that his faith has change and he can not continue in the church with such doubts and they decided to move to the north of England.
  Mrs Hale gets... more info

• A Botch. Not as Good as the Splendid 2004 BBC Miniseries.
  The best thing about Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South" may be that it inspired the superlative 2004 BBC miniseries by the same name. In fact, the miniseries was so good the day I finished watching it I began reading Gaskell's novel.
  Given its failings, it is miraculous that director Brian Percival, writer Sandy Welch, Martin Phipps, who wrote the score, and the entire excellent cast were able to create such a stunning miniseries out of this less than stellar novel.
  "North and South" has its... more info

• "brutalised both as to his pleasures and his pains"
  North and South is a very ambitious novel, and the fact that it has flaws in the execution do not detract from its successes.
  It is, first of all, a social novel. It explores the differences between the industrialized north of England and the older more agricultural life in the south. The characters are all gripped by the hand of change-- changing religious beliefs, changing relationships between master and servant, changing expectations of family life and changing socio-economic conditions. What... more info

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