Social classes -- Fiction books

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is a domestic fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the marriage…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel is a social comedy of manners set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the lives of young…

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

Dit werk is een Nederlandse vertaling van Jane Austens eerste roman, waarin de familie Dashwood centraal…

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel that opens amid the bustling, self‑conscious world of Sir Pitt Crawley, a…

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s “Two on a Tower” unfolds as a tightly wound episode of didactic fiction, set against the…

Tess of the Storm Country

Grace Miller White

Grace Miller White’s opening places the reader on the banks of Cayuga Lake, where three squat‑settler…

The Guarded Heights

Wadsworth Camp

The Guarded Heights is a social‑class romance set against the backdrop of a rural horse‑stable and the…

North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The novel opens in a genteel London drawing‑room, where Margaret watches her cousin Edith drift asleep on a…

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth is a social and psychological novel set in turn‑of‑the‑century New York, where the…

Joan and Co.

Frederick Orin Bartlett

The novel opens in the glittering world of New York’s social season, where the young debutante Joan Fairburne…

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend opens on a bleak stretch of the Thames, where a rag‑haired, sun‑burnt man and his teenage…

Howards End

E. M. Forster

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

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…

Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1

Henry Fielding

The work is Henry Fielding’s first novel, a comic and affectionate bildungsroman that follows the adventures…

Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a sprawling political novel that sets its stage in the glittering world of the 1837 Derby, using…

Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel

Guy de Maupassant

This novel is a sharply observed portrait of Parisian ambition in the late nineteenth‑century, introducing us…

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell

Howards End

E. M. Forster

The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Crucible

Mark Lee Luther

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy