Domestic fiction books

金瓶梅

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The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The novel opens amid the glittering ritual of a New York winter opera, where society’s elite arrive in…

The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope

The novel is a domestic tale set in the imagined county of Barsetshire, focusing on the intertwined lives of…

Boken om lille-bror: Ett äktenskaps roman

Gustaf af Geijerstam

Denna roman är en inre skildring av ett äktenskapligt liv där huvudpersonen reflekterar över sin egen lycka,…

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

A Simple Story is an eighteenth‑century English novel that concentrates on a handful of intimate…

Aunt Jane of Kentucky

Eliza Calvert Hall

The novel is a domestic tale set in rural Kentucky, narrated through the eyes of a young visitor who finds…

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is a domestic tale set in rural England, foregrounded by a vivid description of the…

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic tale that weaves together domestic concerns, the world of antique…

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel opens in 1913 with the introspective young heir Anthony Patch, a twenty‑five‑year‑old who balances…

The sound and the fury

William Faulkner

The novel is a work of psychological and domestic fiction set in Mississippi, focusing on a family’s tangled…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is a sprawling Victorian novel that intertwines domestic concerns with a…

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Silas Marner is a domestic‑fiction tale set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the humble craft of…

The Forsyte Saga - Complete

John Galsworthy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a domestic novel that foregrounds the social and moral landscape of…

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

The novel is a work of frontier fiction set in Nebraska, threading together themes of pioneer life,…

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel is a historical romance that weaves together the domestic concerns of a New‑England family with a…

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

The novel is a Victorian domestic drama that centres on the Dombey family’s commercial empire and the fraught…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Ce roman s’inscrit dans la tradition du roman domestique du XIXᵉ siècle, où les thèmes de l’adultère, du…

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

The novel is a satirical look at small‑town life, set in the imagined “Gopher Prairie, Minnesota,” but…

The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy’s opening to The Man of Property frames the work as a sweeping family chronicle, a “Saga” of…

Howards End

E. M. Forster

The novel opens with a vivid, almost breathless description of a modest red‑brick house and its surrounding…

Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I

Xueqin Cao

The work is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction set in Qing‑era China, authored by Cao Xueqin, who…

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton is a domestic narrative that intertwines love, family, and the stark…

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an autobiographical work of domestic fiction set in a nineteenth‑century English mining…