Domestic fiction books

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day opens on a muted October Sunday, where the young Katharine Hilbery is busy…

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

The novel is a work of historical fiction that places its story on the wind‑blown prairie of…

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters is a domestic novel that traces the growth of young Molly Gibson from…

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons is a work of historical fiction that dramatizes the clash between…

The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a domestic‑fiction set in the English Midlands, tracing the Brangwen family’s life on Marsh Farm…

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

"My Novel" — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

William Makepeace Thackeray

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Herman Melville

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery

John Galsworthy

The Antiquary — Complete

Walter Scott

L'Assommoir

Émile Zola

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Painted Veil

W. Somerset Maugham

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope

The Squatter and the Don A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

The Golden Bowl — Complete

Henry James

The Valley of the Moon

Jack London

Washington Square

Henry James

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope

Castle Rackrent

Maria Edgeworth