Books with title North, South, East, and West

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North and South is a novel that exposed Victorian inequalities. Margaret Hale a woman from the South of England moves to the industrialized North of England where she is shocked by the huge inequalities between the rich and the working class. This serves as a backdrop for a conflicted love story. Margaret finds herself falling in love with John Thornton, the owner of the local mill. But her concern for the Mill's striking workers complicates the relationship. A classic tale of class and love.

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North and South is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television twice (1975 and 2004). The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor; North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. She witnesses the brutal world wrought by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. Sympathetic to the poor (whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends), she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers. The novel traces her growing understanding of the complexity of labour relations and their impact on well-meaning mill owners and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. North and South is set in the fictional town of Milton in the North of England when industrialisation was changing the city. The novel has frequently been favourably compared to the similarly-focused Shirley by the better-known novelist and friend of Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë. North and South originally appeared in 20 weekly episodes from September 1854 to January 1855 in Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. During this period Dickens dealt with the same theme in Hard Times (also a social novel), which was published in the same magazine from April to August 1854 (Chapman, 1999, p. 26; Ingham, 1995, p. xii–xiii).[2] Hard Times, which shows Manchester (the satirical Coketown) in a negative light, challenged Gaskell and made the writing of her own novel more difficult; she had to ascertain that Dickens would not write about a strike. Gaskell found the time and technical constraints of serialised fiction particularly trying. She had planned to write 22 episodes, but was "compelled to desperate compression" to limit the story to 20. North and South was less successful than Hard Times. On 14 October 1854, after six weeks, sales dropped so much that Dickens complained about what he called Gaskell's "intractability" because she resisted his demands for conciseness. He found the story "wearisome to the last degree" (Chapman 1999, p. 28). Title[edit] The novel's title (imposed by Dickens) focuses on the difference in lifestyle between rural southern England, inhabited by the landed gentry and agricultural workers, and the industrial north, populated by capitalist manufacturers and poverty-stricken mill workers;[3] the north-south division was cultural and geographical.[4] The story centres on haughty Margaret Hale, who learns to overcome her prejudices against the North in general and charismatic manufacturer John Thornton in particular. Gaskell would have preferred to call the novel Margaret Hale (as she had done in 1848 for her novel Mary Barton), but Dickens prevailed. He wrote in a 26 July 1854 letter that "North South" seemed better, encompassing more and emphasising the opposition between people who are forced by circumstances to meet face-to-face (Ingham, 1995, p. xii). Working on the final chapters of the novel in December at Lea Hurst (Florence Nightingale's family home near Matlock in Derbyshire), Gaskell wrote that she would rather call her novel Death and Variations because "there are five dead, each beautifully consistent with the personality of the individual".

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An apparently impossible love story between two people with totally different backgrounds, the book written by the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell also presents the contrasts between the representatives of the old English society, anchored in traditions, and a new world, formed mostly of people who gained a superior social status through efforts and hard work.The novel opens with the heroin, the 19 years old Margaret Hale, returning to the southern village where she was born, Helstone, after spending 10 years in London, at her wealthy relatives Aunt Shaw and cousin Edith. During this time, she completes the typical education of a young lady from the upper classes.Margaret is very happy to return to the place of her childhood and to be reunited with her parents, Mr. Hale, a pastor, and his loving wife. However, this happiness is short lived, as some differences of opinions make her father resign his position, moving with his family in Blackshire, an industrial region.Here, he earns money by tutoring some of the richest people in the area, John Thornton, the owner of the greatest cotton mill there, being one of them. A self-made man, risen from poverty, Thornton is attracted by Margaret, who does not show the same interest in him, disapproving his coarse manners and the harsh way in which he treats the people who work in his factory.After she declines his marriage proposal, the heroin is seen by the protagonist in the company of her brother Frederick, a fugitive naval officer involved in a mutiny, whom Thornton believes to be her lover.In time, Margaret discovers the true nature of Thornton's personality and begins to have feelings for him, but does she have the opportunity to clear the misunderstanding and make the man of her dreams understand that she was accompanied by her brother?

Only a strong woman can move from the gentle South to the harsh North. Margaret Hale supports her family as they make their transition. Now that her father has left the church, she has to make the best of her new circumstances. Margaret observes the tension in the town between the mill workers and the mill owners. Will there be a strike? Why does Mr. Thornton irk her so?

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