{"product_id":"9781961884366","title":"North and South","description":"Author: Elizabeth Gaskell\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781961884366\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet amid the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of the industrial revolution,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a forceful, brilliant, and romantic novel about freedom and the cost of profit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Margaret Hale, a minister's daughter, relocates with her family to Milton in the north of England she witnesses firsthand the brutal working conditions in Milton's factories and mills. Her liberal education has given her strong convictions, but little common sense, and her pity finds a mostly unsympathetic ear among the gruff mill workers and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagaret is most vexed by a local industrialist and mill-owner, John Thornton, whom she considers contemptuous and bull-headed. But through her clashes with Thornton and her growing affinity for the workers and their plight for survival, Margaret comes to see the world as a much more complicated place, and that her earlier pity was not charity but a kind of arrogance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThunderously philosophical and compulsively readable, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid portrayal of not only unthinking conformity or selfish individualism, but the power of vulnerability and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875649409182,"sku":"ADS-9781961884366","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781961884366.jpg?v=1779754674","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781961884366","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}