North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the aggressive northerners of the dirty, smoky industrial town of Milton. But as she adapts to her new home, she defies social conventions with her ready sympathy and defense of the working poor. Her passionate advocacy leads her to repeatedly clash with charismatic mill owner John Thornton over his treatment of his workers. While Margaret denies her growing attraction to him, Thornton agonizes over his foolish passion for her, in spite of their heated disagreements. As tensions mount between them, a violent unionization strike explodes in Milton, leaving everyone to deal with the aftermath in the town and in their personal lives.

Elizabeth Gaskell serialized North and South between September 1854 and January 1855 in Charles Dickens’s magazine Household Words. Upon its publication, Gaskell established herself as a novelist capable of serious discourse on social responsibility and advocacy for change in defiance of established authority.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:19) Chapter 02

(00:44:09) Chapter 03

(01:06:59) Chapter 04

(01:33:01) Chapter 05

(02:02:25) Chapter 06

(02:17:21) Chapter 07

(02:36:06) Chapter 08

(02:59:07) Chapter 09

(03:08:58) Chapter 10

(03:29:29) Chapter 11

(03:47:35) Chapter 12

(04:01:13) Chapter 13

(04:17:29) Chapter 14

(04:31:13) Chapter 15

(05:09:16) Chapter 16

(05:29:20) Chapter 17

(05:49:54) Chapter 18

(06:10:34) Chapter 19

(06:39:34) Chapter 20

(07:03:01) Chapter 21

(07:23:16) Chapter 22

(07:57:52) Chapter 23

(08:15:47) Chapter 24

(08:30:55) Chapter 25

(08:58:14) Chapter 26

(09:11:48) Chapter 27

(09:27:10) Chapter 28

(10:10:45) Chapter 29

(10:25:34) Chapter 30

(10:56:38) Chapter 31

(11:21:23) Chapter 32

(11:33:00) Chapter 33

(11:45:58) Chapter 34

(11:58:14) Chapter 35

(12:34:34) Chapter 36

(13:01:12) Chapter 37

(13:25:29) Chapter 38

(13:57:45) Chapter 39

(14:20:42) Chapter 40

(14:53:15) Chapter 41

(15:22:52) Chapter 42

(15:49:49) Chapter 43

(16:11:30) Chapter 44

(16:35:50) Chapter 45

(16:43:03) Chapter 46

(17:29:33) Chapter 47

(17:42:24) Chapter 48

(17:57:22) Chapter 49

(18:12:15) Chapter 50

(18:37:11) Chapter 51

(18:53:20) Chapter 52

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