North and South (First Edition)/Volume 1

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North and South (1855)
by Elizabeth Gaskell

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3894294North and South1855Elizabeth Gaskell

NORTH AND SOUTH.

NORTH AND SOUTH

BY

THE AUTHOR OF "MARY BARTON," "RUTH,"
"CRANFORD," &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1855

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

On its first appearance in "Household Words," this tale was obliged to conform to the conditions imposed by the requirements of a weekly publication, and likewise to confine itself within certain advertised limits, in order that faith might be kept with the public. Although these conditions were made as light as they well could be, the author found it impossible to develope the story in the manner originally intended, and, more especially, was compelled to hurry on events with an improbable rapidity towards the close. In some degree to remedy this obvious defect, various short passages have been inserted, and several new chapters added. With this brief explanation, the tale is commended to the kindness of the reader;

"Beseking hym lowly, of mercy and pité,
Of its rude makyng to have compassion."

Contents (not listed in original)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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