Social problems and new ideas

8 books

Bleak HouseCharles Dickens · 1853Bleak House, Charles Dickens's 1853 novel, follows the endless Chancery lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, critiquing the Court of Chancery and its delays. The story is told in part by Esther Summerson and opens with a foggy London scene.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Felix Holt, the RadicalGeorge Eliot · 1866A three-volume 1866 novel by George Eliot, set in English midlands towns during the era of pocket boroughs, corn laws, and early industrial unrest, depicting rural and manufacturing communities and the political and social changes stirring among their people.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Hard TimesCharles Dickens · 1854An 1854 illustrated novel by Charles Dickens that opens in a schoolroom where Thomas Gradgrind, a man devoted strictly to facts and calculation, instills his utilitarian philosophy in the children under his charge, including young Sissy Jupe.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Little DorritCharles Dickens · 1857Little Dorrit, published by Charles Dickens in 1857, is a novel in two parts, Poverty and Riches, following Amy Dorrit, born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors prison where her father has long been confined.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Man and WifeWilkie Collins · 1870A Victorian novel by Wilkie Collins, published in 1870, following the lifelong friendship of two women separated when one sails to India. The story opens with their farewell vow and moves to events twenty-four years later involving marriage and family troubles.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Mary BartonElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1848Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's 1848 first novel, is a work of fiction set among Manchester factory workers, portraying the hardships and tensions between the poor and their employers, culminating in a murder, an arrest, and a young woman's efforts to prove an alibi.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

North and SouthElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1855An 1855 novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South opens as Margaret Hale, a clergyman's daughter raised by her aunt in London, prepares to return to her parents' home in a country parsonage after her cousin Edith's wedding.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë · 1848A Victorian novel first published in 1848, this 1920 edition with an introduction by Mrs. Humphrey Ward presents Anne Brontë's story of a mysterious woman tenant, tracing her marriage, troubled domestic life, flight, and eventual reconciliation.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية