North and South

Complete and unabridged, with 97 full-page plates by John Constable, James Tissot and John Everett Millais. A southern clergyman's daughter is moved to a northern mill town, where she takes the strikers' side against a master she is beginning to respect. Gaskell wrote it for Dickens's magazine and fought him over the length and the pace all through the serial. The riot at the mill gates is the sce...