Society and literary novels

15 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 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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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