Society and literary novels

11 books

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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