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Скачать книгу (размер 3 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 652) Аннотация: The 'north and south' of the title are the Satanic mills of the industrial north and the leisured life of London society and rural Hampshire. When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?' Margaret Hale is wrenched from her beloved rural idyll of Helstone and moved with her family to the industrial northern town of Milton, with its grime and all the ugliness of urban life. But from her initial distaste, Margaret develops a new sense of social justice, and a complicated…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. His daughter Mary…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds! Set in the industrial unrest of 1840s Manchester, Mary Barton is a factory-worker's daughter living a working-class life in Victorian England. She soon…