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Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell' ..

When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of the surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, she becomes ..

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition of North and South is presented with extra material and notes to the text.

This book comes with an introduction by Jenny Uglow. Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the socia ..

Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and t ..

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‚Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.‘ Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Auste ..

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated and includes pictures and a comprehensive section on Austen's life and works.

Jane Austen's superb pastiche of the gothic romance

New chronology and further reading. §Edited with an introduction by Marilyn Butler.

‚…in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.‘ Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome ..

This title comes with an introduction by P.D. James. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne ..

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he t ..