North and South

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ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 600 páginas
The book discusses various classes and regions of Victorian England and industrial revolution of the mid-19th century. Margaret Hale moves with her family from the rural South of England to the industrial North. She gets to know about the living conditions of workers and meets a rich mill owner, John Thornton. The novel has several emotional, captivating and exciting moments. A must-read!

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VOLUME II
1
CHAPTER XXX
73
CHAPTER XXXI
103
CHAPTER XXXII
128
CHAPTER XXXIII
140
CHAPTER XXXIV
153
CHAPTER XXXV
166
CHAPTER XXXVI
202
CHAPTER XLII
371
CHAPTER XLIII
398
CHAPTER XLIV
421
CHAPTER XLV
447
CHAPTER XLVI
454
CHAPTER XLVII
500
CHAPTER XLVIII
513
CHAPTER XLIX
528

CHAPTER XXXVII
230
CHAPTER XXXVIII
255
CHAPTER XXXIX
288
CHAPTER XL
310
CHAPTER XLI
343
CHAPTER L
543
CHAPTER LI
566
CHAPTER LII
583
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Elizabeth Gaskell was born on September 29, 1810 to a Unitarian clergyman, who was also a civil servant and journalist. Her mother died when she was young, and she was brought up by her aunt in Knutsford, a small village that was the prototype for Cranford, Hollingford and the setting for numerous other short stories. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian clergyman in Manchester. She participated in his ministry and collaborated with him to write the poem Sketches among the Poor in 1837. Our Society at Cranford was the first two chapters of Cranford and it appeared in Dickens' Household Words in 1851. Dickens liked it so much that he pressed Gaskell for more episodes, and she produced eight more of them between 1852 and 1853. She also wrote My Lady Ludlow and Lois the Witch, a novella that concerns the Salem witch trials. Wives and Daughters ran in Cornhill from August 1864 to January 1866. The final installment was never written but the ending was known and the novel exists now virtually complete. The story centers on a series of relationships between family groups in Hollingford. Most critics agree that her greatest achievement is the short novel Cousin Phillis. Gaskell was also followed by controversy. In 1853, she offended many readers with Ruth, which explored seduction and illegitimacy that led the "fallen woman" into ostracism and inevitable prostitution. The novel presents the social conduct in a small community when tolerance and morality clash. Critics praised the novel's moral lessons but Gaskell's own congregation burned the book and it was banned in many libraries. In 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published. The biography was initially praised but angry protests came from some of the people it dealt with. Gaskell was against any biographical notice of her being written during her lifetime. After her death on November 12, 1865, her family refused to make family letters or biographical data available.

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