North and South


Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
42
Narrator
12
Release Date
January 2011
Duration
18 hours 43 minutes
Summary
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. (Summary by Dani)
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Rina C.

Too many different readers. Some read slowly some too fast and did not enunciated well. Also, a lot is white noise in the background. I love the book.

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Laura Martinez

Some of the readers to fast can't understand them have repeatedly to hear then right

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Rach Vander

The narration is quite slow and the pauses are often stopping in the wrong places so the sentences may not make sense

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M C.

Different readers of different speeds and accents. Have to listen to the commentary at the beginning of each chapter that it's a.........Frustrating

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Anonymous

The book was good, a few of the narrators were awful, which totally spoilt the enjoyment.

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Robin H.

The book itself is good but because each chapter is read by a different person sometimes you get really good reading and sometimes you get people who seem to be whispering or need to audibly lick their lips every other sentence or have zero inflection. I’d say the good readers out numbered the bad but it can get distracting.

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