9 似ている本: ワイルドフェル館の住人
虚栄の市
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought,…
共通テーマ:Married women, Married people, British and irish fiction, England
人と妻
On a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay.
共通テーマ:Married women, Married people, Domestic fiction, British and irish fiction
法律と婦人
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him
-- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was…
共通テーマ:Married women, Married people, British and irish fiction, England
大麦男ジョン
It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting it. Then I had ridden…
共通テーマ:Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Biography & Memoir
ラックレント城
A politically-charged satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, Castle Rackrent is a critically-acclaimed and thoroughly enjoyable novel. The social commentary critiques not only class but also gender roles, acutely discussing the marginalization of women in the eighteenth century. In Castle Rackrent, published in 1800, the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie rise to power.
共通テーマ:Landlord and tenant, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs
ある貴婦人の肖像
Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman.
共通テーマ:Married women, Married people, Manners and customs, Social life and customs
中道の町
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.
共通テーマ:Married women, Married people, England, Social life and customs
従兄ヘンリー
When the Squire of Llanfeare dies, his nephew Henry inherits the estate. Rumours are rife that the Squire had named his niece Isabel as his heir, and that Henry is an impostor. Mr Apjohn, the family lawyer, takes it upon himself to investigate.
共通テーマ:Manners and customs, Domestic fiction, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs
通行止め
No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.
共通テーマ:Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs