Sever i Yug

V nastoyaschem izdanii vpervye na russkom yazyke publikuetsya roman Elizabet Gaskell "Sever i Yug" - istoriya lyubvi, rasskazannaya v luchshih tradiciyah viktorianskoy literatury. Do sih por pochitateli tvorchestva Elizabet Gaskell v Rossii imeli vozmozhnost' poznakomit'sya s etim romanom tol'ko po prekrasnoy ekranizacii VVS 2004 goda. Glavnaya geroinya, urozhenka Yuzhnoy Anglii Margaret Heyl, vynuzhdena pereehat' v severnye promyshlennye rayony. Vpechatlitel'naya devushka gluboko vozmuschena uzhasnymi usloviyami, v kotoryh zhivut rabochie, odnako ee negodovanie protiv vladel'ca fabriki Dzhona Torntona nevol'no pererastaet v nezhnoe chuvstvo. Geroyam na protyazhenii romana prihoditsya preodolevat' mnozhestvo predrassudkov, uchit'sya bolee shiroko i polno videt' mir, ne delya ego na chernoe i beloe, na sever i yug, uchit'sya dobrote i chelovechnosti.