13 似ている本： 森の人々
狂騒の群れのかなたに
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues,…
共通テーマ：Triangles, Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England
カスター・ブリッジの市長
Like many of Hardy’s novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s. It begins with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunk on rum, auctioning off his wife and baby daughter at a village fair. The next day, overcome with remorse, Henchard resolves to turn his life around. When we meet Henchard eighteen years later, temperance and hard work have…
共通テーマ：Wessex, British and irish fiction, Drama
佩勒姆
This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true…
共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, Drama, Classic Literature, Romance
緑蔭のうたひ
Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.
共通テーマ：Wessex, British and irish fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
恵麻
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a…
共通テーマ：Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England, Social life and customs
イノセンスの時代
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but…
共通テーマ：Triangles, Drama, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
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：Social classes, Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, England
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, Drama, Social life and customs
トランペット少尉とロバートの弟
Set against a backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, this is a novel about a young woman and the three very different suitors who vie for her hand. Two of the men are brothers involved in the fighting, one an easygoing sailor, the other an honest and diffident trumpet major, the third suitor being the cowardly son of the local squire.
共通テーマ：Wessex, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
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
悦楽の家
Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
共通テーマ：Social classes, Manners and customs, Drama, Social life and customs
帰郷
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.
共通テーマ：Wessex, Social life and customs, Romance
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