North and south
(2013)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2013
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781909904620 (electronic bk.) MWT11620413, 1909904627 (electronic bk.) 11620413
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Clare Wille
Margaret Hale is forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south and move to the industrial town of Milton where she witnesses the harsh brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and where employers and workers clash in the first organised strikes. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who belongs to the nouveaux riches and whose contemptuous attitude to workers Margaret despises
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