North and South (version 2) by Elizabeth Cleghorn GASKELL (1810 - 1865) Genre(s): Historical Fiction Read by: Kara Shallenberg, Lee Ann Howlett, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Madame Tusk, Yazpistachio, JemmaBlythe, Robin Cotter, thomasina, foudebassan, TinyPines, Michelle Crandall in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 29 - A RAY OF SUNSHINE 00:13:57 - 30 - HOME AT LAST 00:42:47 - 31 - 'SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT?' 01:13:09 - 32 - MISCHANCES 01:24:03 - 33 - PEACE 01:40:42 - 34 - FALSE AND TRUE 01:56:28 - 35 - EXPIATION 02:30:46 - 36 - UNION NOT ALWAYS STRENGTH 02:55:12 - 37 - LOOKING SOUTH 03:16:37 - 38 - PROMISES FULFILLED 03:45:05 - 39 - MAKING FRIENDS 04:03:54 - 40 - OUT OF TUNE 04:34:56 - 41 - THE JOURNEY'S END 05:01:50 - 42 - ALONE! ALONE! 05:25:25 - 43 - MARGARET'S FLITTIN' 05:47:20 - 44 - EASE NOT PEACE 06:11:13 - 45 - NOT ALL A DREAM 06:17:41 - 46 - ONCE AND NOW 06:55:55 - 47 - SOMETHING WANTING 07:07:17 - 48 - 'NE'ER TO BE FOUND AGAIN' 07:20:22 - 49 - BREATHING TRANQUILLITY 07:34:00 - 50 - CHANGES AT MILTON 07:56:21 - 51 - MEETING AGAIN 08:17:02 - 52 - 'PACK CLOUDS AWAY' North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The change of lifestyle shocks Margaret, who sympathizes deeply with the poverty of the workers and comes into conflict with John Thornton, the owner of a local mill, also a friend of her father. After an encounter with a group of strikers, in which Margaret attempts to protect Thornton from the violence, he proposes to her, telling her that he is in love with her; she rejects his proposal of marriage, mainly because she sees it as if it were out of obligation for what she had done. Later, he sees her with her fugitive brother, whom he mistakes for another suitor, and this creates further unresolved conflict. Margaret, once she believes she has lost his affection, begins to see him in another light, and eventually they are reunited. (Summary from Wikipedeia) More information: http://librivox.org/north-and-south-by-elizabeth-cleghorn-gaskell-version-2/