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Set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England, "North and South" is Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel that contrasts the different ways of life in the two respective regions of England. In the North the emerging industrialized society is sharply contrasted with the aging gentry of the agrarian based South. The plot of "North and South" centers around the main character Margaret Hale, the daughter of a non-conformist minis...

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A romantic story with descriptions of working people and their lives, as the author encountered them in northern mills. Despite this grim setting, the book has the power to involve the reader in the lives of Elizabeth Gaskell's characters.

Excerpt from Ruth: A Novel, Vol. 1 of 2 There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that sur prises the modern traveller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an importa...

Excerpt from Ruth: A Novel, Vol. 2 of 3 If she suspects, we had far better tell her the truth, at once. She will never rest till she finds it out, so we must make a virtue of necessity. Well, brother, you shall tell her then, for I am sure I daren't. I don't mind doing the thing, since you talked to me that day, and since I've got to know Ruth, but I do mind all the clatter people will make about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books pub...

Excerpt from Ruth: A Novel, Vol. 3 of 3 Mr. Bradshaw said that Mr. Farquhar and Mr. Hickson would come with him. But that is not Mr. Farquhar, I am sure, said Ruth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pr...

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A powerful short novel, written for Christmas and published by Dickens in Household Words

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Excerpt from Mary Barton, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of Manchester Life Oh 'tis hard, 'tis hard to be working The whole of the live-long day, When all the neighbours about one Are Off to their jaunts and play. There's Richard hé carries his baby, And Mary takes little Jane, And lovingly they'll be wandering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This boo...

Excerpt from Works, Vol. 5 of 8They had been two-and-twenty years man and wife, for nineteen of those years their life had been as calm and happy as the most perfect uprightness on the one side, and the most complete confidence and loving submission on the other, could make it. Milton's famous line might have been framed and hung up as the rule of their married life, for he was truly the interpreter, who stood between God and her, she would ha...

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Excerpt from Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. 3 of 3 And now Philip seemed as prosperous as his heart could desire. The business flourished, and money beyond his moderate wants came in. As for himself he required very little, but he had always looked forward to placing his idol in a befitting shrine, and means for this were now furnished to him. The dress, the comforts, the position he had desired for Sylvia were all hers. She did not need to do a strok...

A story of class struggle, sometimes violent, in the North West of England

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Scegliendo le parole con la cura e la pacatezza di un abile intarsiatore la Gaskell racconta con straordinaria delicatezza la storia di Phillis, cugina del diciannovenne Paul, e si esprime attraverso una sorta di realismo in bilico tra due ideali: da una parte la campagna, armoniosa e immobile, e dall'altra la città con il suo dinamismo ineluttabile e divoratore". (Kate Singleton)

Follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the north. This book uses a love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a industrial society. It traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later.

Excerpt from Round the Sofa, Vol. 2 Mr.Dawson had often come in and out of the room during the time that this sister had been telling us about Lady Ludlow. He would stop, and listen a little, and smile or sigh as the case might be. The Monday after the dear old lady had wound up her tale (if tale it could be called), we felt rather at a loss what to talk about, we had grown so accustomed to listen to Mrs. Dawson. I remember I was saying, "Oh,...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cook's shop in the county town of Eltham. My father ...