Plot Review :
BBC Miniseries and Book review : North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I stumbled upon the BBC miniseries starring Richard Armitage and liked it very much , and then went on to read the book. If Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a social drama, this one's more socio-political drama.Set mainly in the smoky manufacturing town of Milton, it revolves around the struggle between the mill-owners and the labourors. With this on the background, a powerful love story between an impeccable lady from the picturisque south ,who comes to Milton and an idealistic mill-owner despite their differences in convictions,takes the center-stage. And being an ardent fan of Jane Austen, am comparing this book and the characters with Pride and Prejudice, and it does stand on par.As somewhere I read, characters like Darcy and Thornton ,raise the general levels of intelligence and convictions in men. The book is so beautifully written ,albiet a bit long, and starts slowly, you would not want to miss a single word, and go back to read and re-read each and every sentence u did not understand.If you like Pride and Prejudice, watch the mini-series first. If you like that, go for this book. It's blissful reading. And this one will go down in my list of top 10.
