{"product_id":"north-south-paperback","title":"North \u0026 South - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Gaskell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdrienne Garcia-Specht\u003c\/b\u003e (With), \u003cb\u003eMorgan Spector\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cb\u003eSmith \u0026amp; Taylor Classics\u003c\/b\u003e keepsake edition reintroduces Elizabeth Gaskell's enduring tale of love, labor, and social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet amid the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of the industrial revolution, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e is a forceful, brilliant, and romantic novel about freedom and the cost of profit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Margaret Hale, a minister's daughter, relocates with her family to Milton in the north of England she witnesses firsthand the brutal working conditions in Milton's factories and mills. Her liberal education has given her strong convictions, but little common sense, and her pity finds a mostly unsympathetic ear among the gruff mill workers and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagaret is most vexed by a local industrialist and mill-owner, John Thornton, whom she considers contemptuous and bull-headed. But through her clashes with Thornton and her growing affinity for the workers and their plight for survival, Margaret comes to see the world as a much more complicated place, and that her earlier pity was not charity but a kind of arrogance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThunderously philosophical and compulsively readable, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid portrayal of not only unthinking conformity or selfish individualism, but the power of vulnerability and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing a conversational afterword from writer Adrienne Garcia-Specht and actor Morgan Spector. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell\u003c\/b\u003e (1810-1865) was born in London but she spent her formative years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and the north of England. In 1832 she married Unitarian minister Reverend William Gaskell of Manchester. As well as leading a busy domestic life as minister's wife and mother of four daughters, she worked among the poor, traveled frequently, and wrote. \u003ci\u003eMary Barton \u003c\/i\u003e(1848) was her first success. She met Charlotte Brontë in 1850 and wrote the controversial biography of her late friend's life, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Charlotte Brontë\u003c\/i\u003e (1857).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Garcia-Specht\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and Elizabeth Gaskell enthusiast. She earned a master's degree in English from Syracuse University and lives on California's Central Coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorgan Spector\u003c\/b\u003e is an actor and producer who is best known for his leading role as George Russell in \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027507331261,"sku":"9781961884366","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/Rn1BXGuEvy9781961884366.webp?v=1782878449","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/north-south-paperback","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}