Didactic fiction books

Charlotte Temple

Mrs. Rowson

The work presents itself as a moral tale aimed at young women, explicitly framed as a “Tale of Truth” meant…

The Octopus : A Story of California

Frank Norris

The Octopus is a didactic work set amid the wheat‑fields and dusty roads of California’s San Joaquin Valley…

The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire: A Romance

Marie Corelli

The novel presents itself as a didactic romance that intertwines social critique with a supernatural twist,…

Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are

William Godwin

The work is a didactic novel that doubles as a bildungsroman, set in England and populated with murderers,…

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton‑Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost is a didactic domestic tale that follows Elnora Comstock as…

Cousin Betty

Honoré de Balzac

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

The Harvester

Gene Stratton-Porter

The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin

Anna Karenina, 1. Band

Leo Tolstoy

Sämtliche Werke 9-10: Die Brüder Karamasoff

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ramona

Helen Hunt Jackson

Amelia — Complete

Henry Fielding

Household Papers and Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

Joseph Conrad

Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Elsie Venner

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One

Peter B. Kyne

In the Cage

Henry James

The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy

Sarah Fielding

Effi Briest

Theodor Fontane

Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete

Winston Churchill

The Cash Boy

Horatio Alger, Jr.