North and South

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 and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership.Gaskell''s first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between empl...