North and South (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Philip Ball underscoring the ways in which

underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa's grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment

and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery

have disappeared

and Science of Bisexuality

In the Pines casts an unsparing eye over this intimate terrain

North and South (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Philip Ball underscoring the ways in whichForced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. She witnesses the brutal world wrought by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. Sympathetic to the poor, whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers. North and South is a