Marriage, family, and society novels

7 books

Howards EndE. M. Forster · 1910A 1910 novel by E. M. Forster that opens with Helen Schlegel writing to her sister Margaret about a visit to the Wilcox family at their country house, Howards End, where Helen unexpectedly falls in love with the Wilcoxes' younger son.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Landscape with figuresRonald Fraser · 1925A 1925 novel by Ronald Fraser, narrated from the diaries of Ambrose Herbert, which recounts how seven wealthy Englishmen calling themselves the Seven Sages cruise Far Eastern seas on an industrialist's yacht and encounter a mystical, dreamlike Eastern world.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Dark TowerPhyllis Bottome · 1916A 1916 illustrated novel by Phyllis Bottome about Winn Staines, a headstrong British army officer from a turbulent military family, who marries the vain and deceitful Estelle Fanshawe despite his parents' objections, with consequences for the family.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Forsyte saga - CompleteJohn Galsworthy · 1922A 1922 collected edition of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, a multi-volume novel cycle chronicling the Forsyte family across generations in Victorian and Edwardian England, centered on themes of property, marriage, beauty, and family, beginning with The Man of Property.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The smearJohn Beames · 1920A 1920 short story by John Beames set in a Dawson City saloon during the Klondike gold rush. A Mountie uses a clever ruse to unmask Finn Charley, who has just robbed and murdered a man on the Yukon Trail.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tono-BungayH. G. Wells · 1909This 1909 novel by H. G. Wells follows George Ponderevo, an engineer recounting his life and rise through English society alongside his uncle, whose fortune is built on the wildly successful patent medicine Tono-Bungay, a story of ambition, commerce, and social class.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient HouseAnthony Hope · 1901A 1901 novel by Anthony Hope about a family secret surrounding the heir to an ancient English house, told through episodes involving editor Mr. Neeld, the Cholderton family, and a question of legitimacy and inheritance.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية