书名：North and South南方与北方
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数860L
作者：Elizabeth Gaskell伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔
出版社名称：William Collins
出版时间：2011
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780007902255
商品尺寸：11.1 x 3.8 x 17.8 cm
包装：简装
页数：608

North and South《南方与北方》是英国作家伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔的长篇小说﹐主要写曼彻斯特的阶级斗争。小说把经济落后的南方与工业发达的北方做了对比﹐并塑造了一个理想化的资本家﹐他既具有北方企业主的精明能干﹐又具有南方人的文化修养﹐并能调和劳资之间的对立﹐终于振兴了企业。作者在这里再一次宣扬了阶级调和论思想。

推荐理由：

1. 英国古典文学作家伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔代表作，媲美《傲慢与偏见》；

2. 英国BBC经典名剧《南方与北方》英文原著，内容无删减；

3. 柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解；

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“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”

When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town’s mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques and she passionately fights their corner. However, just as she disputes the mill owner, John Thornton’s treatment of his workers, she cannot deny her growing attraction to him. Highlighting the changing landscape of nineteenth-century Britain and championing the role of women in Victorian society, Gaskell brilliantly captures the lives of ordinary people through one of her strongest female characters in literature.

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生长于英国南部的玛格丽特随牧师父亲搬到北方小镇米尔顿。与温暖舒适的南方相比，处于工业革命发端期的北方城镇米尔顿又脏又乱且阴冷无比。不仅如此，她还得整天面对粗俗的工人、棉絮飞舞的纺织工厂。玛格丽特非常不适应北方的环境，更不适应纺织厂厂主、年轻的实业家约翰·桑顿的傲慢无礼。

经过一段时间的米尔顿生活后，玛格丽特体味到工人粗鲁暴躁背后的疾苦和无奈，更加厌恶纺织厂厂主，但约翰·桑顿却对玛格丽特日久生情。二人如同南方与北方，截然相反但又紧密相连……

When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town’s mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques and she passionately fights their corner. However, just as she disputes the mill owner, John Thornton’s treatment of his workers, she cannot deny her growing attraction to him.

伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（1810－1865），英国著名小说家，一生共发表过六部长篇。处女作《玛丽巴顿》揭露了19世纪中叶大英帝国“黄金时代”广大工人群众的悲惨命运，代表作《克兰福德》以幽默的笔触描绘了发生在克兰福德小镇市民间的悲喜剧。她极具代表性的作品是有史诗级小说之称的《南方与北方》。

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.