North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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When Margaret Hale's family leaves the green parsonage of southern England for the smoke-stained mill town of Milton in the industrial north, she enters a harder, faster world of mill owners, strikes and rough northern speech. Outraged by what she sees, she clashes repeatedly with the proud, intelligent factory master John Thornton. From these collisions a more complicated feeling slowly grows.
Elizabeth Gaskell's quietly radical novel pairs an unforgettable love story with one of the sharpest English portraits of the human cost of the Industrial Revolution: workers, owners, and the country squires whose certainties no longer hold.
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