6 似ている本: ドンビーと息子
財産ある男
The first book of the Forsyte Saga, initially published in 1906 (the second was not published until 1921). Here the reader is introduced to the large Forsyte clan, with special attention paid to the rapacious Soames who’s urge to possess includes his beautiful wife Irene, who he eventually alienates by his jealous and grasping nature.
共通テーマ:Family, British and irish fiction, Families, Social life and customs
非商業的旅行者
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
共通テーマ:British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature
有罪の川
During his lifetime, British fiction writer Wilkie Collins came to rival Charles Dickens in popularity and critical acclaim. Like Dickens, Collins often gravitated toward characters who overcame significant obstacles to learn important life lessons. The novella The Guilty River continues in this vein, recounting an against-all-odds love affair that blossoms between a couple that each…
共通テーマ:British and irish fiction, Classic Literature
妻と娘
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
共通テーマ:Fathers and daughters, Social conditions, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs
虹
(Brangwen Family #1)
Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations of Brangwen women living during the decline of English rural life. Banned upon publication, it explores the most taboo subjects of its time: marriage, physical love, and one family's sexual mores.
共通テーマ:Family, British and irish fiction, Families, Social life and customs
歳月
A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's The Years is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons and…
共通テーマ:Family, British and irish fiction, Families, Social life and customs