{"product_id":"north-and-south-9781847497161","title":"North and South","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst serialized in Dickens's magazine \u003ci\u003eHousehold Words\u003c\/i\u003e in the same period as \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century's most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alma Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847497161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38025533948085,"sku":"9781847497161","price":10.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_481f552c-affa-4151-b3fe-93a9000ce6a8.jpg?v=1609188102","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/north-and-south-9781847497161","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}