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North and South | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 2061
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0140620192
EAN: 9780140620191
ASIN: 0140620192
Publication Date: January 13, 1994
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 very good,tho not as good as i thought it would be August 2, 2008
jesus' girl (england)
I like this book but have to say i thought it would be alot better...it is the tale of the contrast between the country and the city and two characters caught up in that...and it is very good, but quite stretched for such a big book and i just found it a bit of a tug sometimes to get through...and the "I don't love you"..oh hang on..."i love you lots now" thing was a bit vexing
Very good but there are better books in my opinion..but i would recommend it, just not as highly as others
 Too long, boring February 2, 2008
Moony (Belgium)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the first Elizabeth Gaskell book I've ever read and unfortunately not very impressed. The overall subject seems to be the love story in our heroine's life, however, book tries to give so many other mesages that it is not fun or focused anymore. There are social issues, emerging new worker-master dynamics in the victorian time, continues questioning of death and beyond... Within all this it is impossible to get a true taste of a social, phylosophical or romance novel.
Although I like the period books very much, I could barely finish this one.
 The perfect love story July 30, 2007
Greta Villani
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
North and South is my favourite book and I think that it's not known enough. Many people had compared Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with the Gaskell's book, but, in truth, they are very different.
I prefer N&S to P&P because the love between Margaret and Mr Thornton has more passion than the love between Elizabeth and Darcy.
Austen is a genius and I love her novels but she gave us only borders and shadings, Gaskell gave us a picture completed.
I'm very attracted by the idea that a man of power, self-control, strong, firm, could fall so desperately in love with a woman and could become fragile like a child, "she thought she had seen the gleam of unshed tears in his eyes", said Margaret after Mr Thornton's proposal and her vehement refusal.
There are social themes, but I found them interesting too and not boring.
I don't like to call it a social novel, for me it's, first of all, a Romance with a social commentary in the background.
North and South deserves more readers from my point of view and I highly recommended it!
Passion and strife in Victorian times April 1, 2007
Evenstar (UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I loved the BBC adaptation but waited a while before reading the book so it would be fresh. And having just finished this book, what a great story! Political strife, supressed passion, women's rights, class conflict. The fact that Margaret Hale is a strong woman with her own mind (albeit misguided at times) made this story much more believable and enjoyable for me. Despite some bits that might be a little drier to read, I couldn't put it down once I got past the first few chapters. Bear with it! I think it helped having a picture of Richard Armitage in my head as Mr Thornton, as you don't really get an idea of how he looks from the story. However, I'm now watching the BBC adaptation again and have noticed that some really key parts of the story are changed from the book and remove some of the more subtle parts of the story. Plus they seem to make Mr Thornton a much less likeable character than in the book. So I thoroughly recommend this book. A much more exciting and believable story than many of the other Victorian novels I've read - or never managed to finish reading!
 The worst book I have ever read February 26, 2007
J. Charig (London)
1 out of 30 found this review helpful
I had to read this book for my A levels and studying a book in such depth usually makes me appreciate it more but this book is incredibly boring. She copies Dickens a lot in this novel and not much seems to happen. I'm suprised it has survived this long in western literature.
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