New editions of 2 of Gaskell's classic novels from the 19th century. They still have much to say about class divides and corporate responsibility in today's society, and Gaskell is a National Curriculum prescribed author

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 social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.