North and South
That Book was BONKERS
English - June 16, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture literature history books book review Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Should you read North and South without seeing Richard Armitage play Mr. Thornton first? Our hosts say: mmmmmmaybe not. But we still (mostly) enjoyed reading it, and giving a hearty middle finger to Charles Dickens, whose fault it is that the book ends so abruptly.
Other works mentioned:
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class;
Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Mary Brinker Post, Annie Jordan
Blood Brothers musical.
Death Comes to Pemberly miniseries
Babylon Berlin