4.4
Klassikere
As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skillfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
© 2016 Recorded Books, Inc. (Lydbok): 9781501929311
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 30. desember 2016
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4.4
Klassikere
As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skillfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
© 2016 Recorded Books, Inc. (Lydbok): 9781501929311
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 30. desember 2016
Tagger
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Berit
5. sep. 2021
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Karin
24. mai 2022
The book is much too long. It really starts dragging after a while. It’s an interesting look into Victorian politics if you’re interested in that type of thing. If you think it is a romance please reconsider reading it. The romance of the book is deeply connected to economics and one of the big plot points is a strike gone wrong. These plot points are really not interesting to most readers of romance. It’s a very particular type of read. It feels like dickens stripped of caricature, but with a woman’s touch.
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