North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels. The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership. One of literature's greatest romances, North and South is both an incisive social commentary and an electric portrayal of all-conquering love. The book tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas.
0003.4万字
最新章节
第3章 A Soft Breeze in a Sultry Place(2021-08-21 19:58:02)
同类推荐
Darkthaw
For as long as Emmeline can remember, she's longed to leave the isolated world of the settlement and explore the wilderness that calls to her in her dreams. And now that the Council has fallen, she will finally, finally get that chance. With First Peoples guide Matisa at her side, Emmeline rallies a brave group to join her on her quest into the unknown, including her beloved Kane and his two younger brothers. But the journey soon proves far more dangerous than Emmeline anticipated—with warring clans, slavers, colonists, disease, and natural disasters seemingly at every turn. After putting so many lives in danger, she starts to doubt everything she once knew. Did she make the right choice to leave the settlement—and can her relationship with Kane survive the ordeal? Matisa insists that to set things right and to fight the evil that is bringing all this danger and turmoil to the forest, Emmeline must journey to Matisa's people—even if that means leaving Kane behind.
Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge
The new edition has been written for a wider audience, including people in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, paid and volunteer workers, managers and individual contributors, contract and freelance workers.
Odd & True
Trudchen grew up hearing Odette's stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician's curse. But now that Tru's older, she's starting to wonder if her older sister's tales were just comforting lies, especially because there's nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it's Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters' search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that's wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.
热门推荐
狂妃驭凤：腹黑九小姐
她，本是全球最优秀的美女特工，却因执行任务时一场大气层波动，穿越了！清醒时，沦为轩辕大陆，上官家族最废柴的九小姐。咒死哥哥，咒疯娘亲，老爹不管不问，自己体质还极差！她本可享绝代风华，就算穿越也不能被轮为笑谈。机缘巧合下，手臂上多了一个凤凰刺青，栩栩如生，可显神灵，足够助她笑傲天下。当废物小姐变成天才王妃，傲世天下，只手遮天。从此，每每人们再次谈及九小姐时，内心深处都会迸发一种佩服与膜拜。
家有情兽相公
尼玛，谁能告诉她到底怎么回事，不就是逛个街，买件衣服，进入更衣室后，头有点晕。然后一醒来，竟然穿越了，穿了也就算了，是个丫鬟我也认了，可是为毛是个代替小姐出嫁的丫鬟啊。老娘我在21世纪从没泡过美男，还打算来古代泡遍天下美男滴，可谁知，一穿过来就要嫁人。既然逃不掉，那就嫁吧，嫁过去捞点银子再想想跑路的问题。可是，这个相公实在是太好了，吃饭的时候会帮忙夹菜，睡觉的时候不但会暖床，啥，还会讲宫中野史，江湖秘辛给娘子当催眠曲听，无聊的时候会带娘子到处玩。好吧，既然相公这么好，那就嫁鸡随鸡，嫁狗随狗，做个被相公溺宠的乖乖米虫吧。小剧场一：某男人看着正在狂吃点心的某女人：娘子，为什么你比我大，却没有我高呢？某女人头也不抬：因为你吃的比我多。某男人一脸委屈：明明就是娘子吃的多，吃过饭后还吃了两窜葡萄，一个苹果，三个桃子，还有这盘点心。某女人：因为你是男人。某男人一脸不解：可是，隔壁的王员外也是男人啊，他家夫人和小妾都比他高耶！某女人大怒：好啊，你敢背着我看别的女人。某男人可怜兮兮：娘子，我错了。某女人：一句错了就完事了，那还要捕快干嘛，罚你去书房把男人的‘三从四德’抄十遍。小剧场二：某女人闲得很无聊，于是屁颠屁颠地跑到书房去找某男人：相公，我听外面的人说咱们家挺有钱的。某男人急忙放下手里的书：娘子，走这么远是不是累坏了，来，相公给你揉揉肩膀按摩按摩腿。某女人撒娇道：相公还没有告诉人家，咱们家是不是很有钱？某男人：咱们家很穷的，穷的剩下大把的钱没地方放了。某女人双眼放光：相公，人家想看金子。看完金子后。某女人道：相公，人家明天想看银子。某男人连忙吩咐小厮：听见少奶奶的话不，限你们一天之内把金子全部换成银子。某女人又道：相公，人家后天想看铜板。某男人看向小厮：知道该怎样做吗？众小厮：知道了，少爷，奴才们一定把这事干的漂漂亮亮，保证让让少奶奶看得心花怒放。小剧场三：某女人怀孕后，被某个天天紧张兮兮的男人勒令不准到处跑，并且这也不准干，那也不准干。于是，某女人思索再三，作出了一个重大决定：带着肚子里的宝宝离家出走。话说某个月黑风高的夜晚，某女人支开身边的所有人，收拾好包袱，卷走大把的银票，在墙的两头架好梯子。谁知刚爬上围墙，就看见某男人笑的一脸灿烂：娘子，家里不好玩，咱们私奔去吧。