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24 books with the same feel
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George Eliot · 795 pages
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.
USA: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
John dos Passos · 1,312 pages
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte · 184 pages
In her Introduction to an edition of "Agnes Grey," Barbara A. Suess writes "Bronte provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting." Anne Bronte relies on her own personal involvement in her duties as a home teacher to bring Agnes Grey to life. Agnes, a rector's daughter, must take employment as a governess to
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 440 pages
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor villager, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster. Sidetracked by Arabella Donn, an earthy country girl who pretends to be pregnant by him, Jude marries her and is then deserted. He earns a liv
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell · 622 pages
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
The Claverings
Anthony Trollope · 514 pages
Harry Clavering is an able, ambitious, and attractive young man, son of a country vicar and cousin to a baronet. His love for the baronet’s beautiful sister-in-law is at first reciprocated, but then rebuffed as her own ambitions incline her towards marrying a wealthy but personally repellent earl. Harry licks his wounds, and seeks to make his own fortune by training for a career as a civil enginee
Shirley
Charlotte Bronte · 583 pages
Shirley, published in 1849, was Charlotte Brontë’s second novel after Jane Eyre. Published under her pseudonym of “Currer Bell,” it differs in several respects from that earlier work. It is written in the third person with an omniscient narrator, rather than the first-person of Jane Eyre, and incorporates the themes of industrial change and the plight of unemployed workers. It also features strong
The Grapes of Wrath/The Moon is Down/Cannery Row/East of Eden/Of Mice & Men
John Steinbeck · 950 pages
Contains: [The Grapes of Wrath][1] [The Moon is Down][2] [Cannery Row][3] [East of Eden][4] [Of Mice and Men][5] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23205W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23200W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23199W [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23166W [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23204W
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
On Tangled Paths
Theodor Fontane · 192 pages
In 1870s Berlin, an aristocratic officer in a glamorous cavalry regiment and a seamstress supporting herself and her invalid foster-mother with piecework, defy convention by falling in love. What might have been a simple tale of conflict between love and duty becomes, in Fontane's hands, something more sophisticated. The contrast between the lovers' whole-hearted view of each other and the world's
The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante
Contains: 1. [L'amica geniale](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16520879W) 2. [Storia del nuovo cognome](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16807901W) 3. [Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17081245W) 4. [Storia della bambina perduta](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17264238W)
Liza of Lambeth
W. Somerset Maugham · 132 pages
Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere.
A Child of the Jago
Arthur Morrison · 322 pages
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 320 pages
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but
Sybil
Benjamin Disraeli · 455 pages
Benjamin Disraeli was a remarkable historical figure. Born into a Jewish family, he converted to Anglican Christianity as a child. He is now almost certainly most famous for his political career. Becoming a member of the British Parliament at the age of 33, he initially rose to prominence within the Conservative (“Tory”) party because of his clashes with the then Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. Ri
Kipps
H.G. Wells · 320 pages
Partly based on Wells’ own experiences as a young man this novel centres on an orphan who becomes apprenticed to a draper. Bored with his humdrum existence of living and working in a drapers, Kipps’ life changes radically when he inherits a fortune from a previously unknown relative. However more troubles occur when he attempts to emulate the people he encounters in upper class society.
Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 403 pages
Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, th
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 224 pages
This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a doll,
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · 490 pages
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.
The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy · 416 pages
Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Perez Galdos · 848 pages
Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters · 480 pages
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-h
The Princess Casamassima
Henry James · 511 pages
The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when the Princess Casamassima—beautiful, clever and bored—takes him up and introduces