{"product_id":"north-and-south-isbn-9798217197262","title":"North and South","description":"\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Gaskell’s beloved Victorian classic examines social class, integrity, and the tensions between solidarity and autonomy, through the lens of England’s Industrial Revolution—freshly presented with an introduction by bestselling author Adelle Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNineteen-year-old Margaret Hale is devastated when her father unexpectedly gives up their family’s financial security and their picturesque country home in southern England for the dingy northern manufacturing city of Milton. Raised among high London society, Margaret is horrified by the north—full of clattering machinery; a surly, plain-spoken populace; and a bitter class divide between factory owners and workers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFitting neatly into neither class, Margaret moves on the outskirts of both circles—meeting the brusque, rigidly-principled factory owner Mr. Thornton, as well as the union leader Mr. Higgins and his invalid daughter Bessy. While Margaret seeks to reconcile her southern upbringing with the north’s ideals of commerce and self-sufficiency, she must also balance her parents’ increasing dependence on her as well as a heavy family secret and her own acute sense of unbelonging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Margaret’s pride and ingrained biases tangle with her strong conscience and a growing sense of moral outrage, she clashes again and again in outspoken debates with Mr. Thornton, who comes to admire her despite Margaret’s own disregard. But after the union calls for a town-wide strike, Margaret’s perceptions of her old life and her new home in Milton—and of the people who live there—are shaken to the core.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this celebrated social classic, Elizabeth Gaskell presents a richly-drawn moral heroine, an aching romance, and an industry town on the knife’s edge of labor revolt—with a prescient insight and empathy that feel more than a century ahead of their time.\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Gaskell\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1810. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, with whom she had four daughters. For over a decade, she wrote for Charles Dickens’s magazine \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e, where she serially published \u003ci\u003eNorth and South \u003c\/i\u003ein its first format. Her other works include the novels \u003ci\u003eMary Barton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCranford\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRuth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWives and Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a biography of Charlotte Brontë. She died in 1865.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdelle Waldman \u003c\/b\u003eis the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHelp Wanted, \u003c\/i\u003enamed a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eVogue, Vulture, Elle, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Economist, \u003c\/i\u003eand of \u003ci\u003eThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.\u003c\/i\u003e, named a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, and others.Modern Library Torchbearers; Introduction by bestselling author Adelle Waldman","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532175126757,"sku":"NP9798217197262","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/north-and-south-isbn-9798217197262","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}