North & South

This Smith & Taylor Classics keepsake edition reintroduces Elizabeth Gaskell’s enduring tale of love, labor, and social change.

Set amid the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of the industrial revolution, North and South is a forceful, brilliant, and romantic novel about freedom and the cost of profit.

When Margaret Hale, a minister’s daughter, relocates with her family to Milton in the north of England she witnesses firsthand the brutal working conditions in Milton’s fa...