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North and South
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
When Margaret Hale moves with her father from the comfort of the south of England to the industrial north, she is at first repulsed by what she sees; and then when she discovers the conditions under which the workers are forced to live, she is outraged. But this throws her into direct conflict with the powerful young mill-owner, John Thornton. Using personal passions to explore deep social divisions, North and South is a great romance and one of Elizabeth Gaskell's finest works.
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- 07-07-14
Great example of woman empowerment
If you could sum up North and South in three words, what would they be?
Strength, tolerance, wisdom
What was one of the most memorable moments of North and South?
For me it's about the overall story.
Which character – as performed by Clare Wille – was your favourite?
None, they were all interesting
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It certainly made me think
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I didn't think I would find such dept in a book from this era, yet it's way more open-minded and multi layered than most of today's productions.
The simple opening theme, the fact that the father of the main character has not a crisis of faith but an unbearable disillusion towards his church, and how practically this news is taken from his daughter who simply endeavours to help as much as she can in all the arrangements that ensue, is more advanced than the pointless drama that we would surely see in a novel written in our days.
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- Jennifer Humphreys-Jones
- 15-02-18
Change from country life to hard, industrial life
Changes a close family experience moving from comfortable,rural living to a raw, unfamiliar,industrial hardship. Rather long winded but one feels the realities of the move from the rural South to the manufacturing, industrial North. Likeable characters and brilliantly read by Clare Wille.
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- Stephanie Paul
- 27-04-17
Such a wonderful book, brought to life
I have loved his book for many years. Willie'# narration is fantastic. Love, love, love
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- J. E.
- 24-04-19
A new favourite
Clare Wille is an excellent narrator, bringing to life a myriad of different characters so persuasively in this thoughtful, enjoyable novel. Her interpretation of feeling likewise is superb.
One of my favourite novels, one of my favourite narrations!
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- daniela
- 29-07-13
Lovely the story but annoying reader.
This book is one of my favorites as Gaskell's novels always are, and in the beginning I enjoyed the book.
However, when the narrator endeavored to portray Nicholas Higgins voice, sometimes developing into quite long passages, due to the characters frequent and long but actually very interesting 'rants', it ultimately became impossible to continue listening. What is worse, this 'voice' spread itself to other characters further on in the book.
The northern (?) accent the narrator attempted was perhaps plausible, I am not the best judge of that, but it was surely not necessary to spit out each word in such a manner that one could imagine the pages of the narrators copy taking quite a bit of damage from the excessive amount of saliva they were probably exposed to.
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