Society and literary novels

27 books

A Cathedral CourtshipKate Douglas Smith Wiggin · 1893An 1893 illustrated novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, told partly through a young woman's travel diary, about an American girl touring English cathedral towns with her strict High Church aunt when a romance begins along the way.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Romantic Young LadyRobert Grant · 1890A Romantic Young Lady is an 1890 novel by Robert Grant, narrated by Virginia, a young woman raised by two spinsters and her railway magnate father, who learns at eighteen that she is an heiress as she enters society.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Venetian JuneAnna Fuller · 1900A 1900 illustrated novel by Anna Fuller following two American sisters and their retired military uncle as they travel through Venice by gondola, sightseeing along the canals while hints of the colonel's past memories and emotions surface during their June visit.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Adam Johnstone's SonF. Marion Crawford · 1896A novel by F. Marion Crawford, first published in the 1890s, about a young woman named Clare Bowring who lives abroad in modest circumstances with her widowed mother, a soldier's widow whose reserved manner leaves Clare wondering about the father she never knew.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

ConfidenceHenry James · 1879An 1879 novel by Henry James, Confidence follows Bernard Longueville, a young American artist and traveler lingering in Italy, who encounters a young woman at Siena and becomes entangled in matters of friendship and romance.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Daisy Miller: A StudyHenry James · 1878A short 1878 novel by Henry James set at a Swiss resort hotel, where a young American man living in Geneva meets a lively American girl named Daisy Miller, introduces through her flirtatious, unconventional behavior.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Maggie: A Girl of the StreetsStephen Crane · 1893A novel first published in 1893, this book follows Maggie, a girl growing up in a rough urban tenement neighborhood, opening with scenes of street fights, poverty, and family violence surrounding her young brother Jimmie.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

MoodsLouisa May Alcott · 1864Moods is an 1864 novel by Louisa May Alcott about a troubled romance, opening as Adam Warwick tries to break his engagement to the passionate Ottila, whom he says he married without love or respect.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

On the StairsHenry Blake Fuller · 1897A short novel by Henry Blake Fuller tracing two Chicago men, Johnny McComas and Raymond Prince, across the decades from 1873 to 1916, as one rises and the other declines on the social and financial stairs of life.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Paul PatoffF. Marion Crawford · 1887A novel by F. Marion Crawford, first published in 1887, framed as a story told by narrator Paul Griggs to a lady friend. The tale begins with a conversation in the Valley of the Sweet Waters above Constantinople, where the narrator begins recounting events.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Pierre; or The AmbiguitiesHerman Melville · 1852An 1852 novel by Herman Melville following Pierre Glendinning, a young man of a proud rural New York family, whose idyllic life with his widowed mother and love for Lucy is unsettled by the mysterious Isabel and her story.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Roderick HudsonHenry James · 1875Henry James's 1875 novel follows Rowland Mallet, a wealthy, idle young American preparing to sail for Europe, as his cousin Cecilia urges him to find a useful purpose for his money and talents.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser · 1900A 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser about Caroline Meeber, a young country girl who moves to Chicago in 1889, where the lure of the big city and the attentions of a charming stranger test her innocence and ambition.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The AmericanHenry James · 1877A novel by Henry James, published in 1877, following a wealthy, self-made American businessman in Paris who admires art and a young woman copying a painting in the Louvre, contrasting American directness with European society.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Art of DisappearingJohn Talbot Smith · 1899A 1902 novel by John Talbot Smith about Horace Endicott, a young Protestant whose chance encounter with Monsignor O'Donnell after a train wreck begins his turn toward Catholicism. The story follows themes of disappearance, exile, and Irish-American Catholic life.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Aspern PapersHenry James · 1888An 1888 novella in which an American editor travels to Venice and takes lodgings with the elderly former lover of a famous poet, scheming to obtain a cache of the writer's letters she is rumored to possess.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesKate Chopin · 1899A collection of Kate Chopin's 1899 novel The Awakening, following Edna Pontellier, a married woman summering on Grand Isle who becomes close with young Robert Lebrun, along with several of Chopin's short stories.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Blithedale RomanceNathaniel Hawthorne · 1852An 1852 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, narrated by Miles Coverdale, who joins a group of reformers founding the experimental farming community of Blithedale, where the mysterious Veiled Lady, Zenobia, Hollingsworth, and Priscilla entangle the dreamers' utopian scheme.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Cardinal's snuff-boxHenry Harland · 1900A 1900 novel by Henry Harland in which Englishman Peter Marchdale, staying in an Italian lakeside village, meets his landlady, a beautiful young English-born duchess, and becomes romantically intrigued by her.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Coast of BohemiaWilliam Dean Howells · 1893An 1893 novel by William Dean Howells about a talented village girl from rural Ohio who goes to New York to study art, where she falls in love, set amid the city's art-student world and impressionist painters.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The EuropeansHenry James · 1878A novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It follows a cosmopolitan brother and sister, raised in Europe, who visit relatives in nineteenth-century Boston, where the woman finds the city disagreeable and their situation a mistake.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Faith Doctor: A Story of New YorkEdward Eggleston · 1891A novel by Edward Eggleston, published in 1891, set in New York society and following Charles Millard and Phillida Callender. It explores faith cure, Christian Science, and mind healing, examining human nature and credulity under modern conditions.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · 1851A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851, following the Pyncheon family, whose New England ancestors quarreled generations earlier, leaving a supposed curse on the old seven-gabled house where the family's declining fortunes unfold.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Love Affairs of an Old MaidLilian Bell · 1893An 1893 humorous novel by Lilian Bell, told in first person by a witty woman who, upon turning thirty, declares herself an Old Maid and reflects wryly on marriage, youth, love, and the lives of her friends.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · 1850An 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, prefaced by an autobiographical Custom-House sketch, that tells the story of Hester Prynne, her child Pearl, and the minister Arthur Dimmesdale in a Puritan New England community, following the consequences of the scarlet letter Hester is forced to wear.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Washington SquareHenry James · 1880A novel by Henry James, first published in 1880, set in nineteenth century New York. It follows Dr. Austin Sloper, a respected physician, his daughter Catherine, and the aunt who comes to live with them as Catherine reaches adulthood.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

What Maisie KnewHenry James · 1897An 1897 novel by Henry James about young Maisie Farange, who is caught between her bitterly divorced, self-centered parents and shuttled between them for six months at a time, perceiving far more of their feuding world than a child should.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية