18 books like Only Time Will Tell

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Grand Sophy Georgette Heyer · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives. When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Great Britain, Families

Blood's Game Angus Donald · 2017 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 330 pages ; 25 cm Shares: Fathers and sons, Great Britain

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The Whiteoak brothers Mazo de la Roche · 1953 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining broker whose new venture promises miracles. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The years Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 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… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Families, Social life and customs

The revolution of Marina M. Fitch, Janet · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 816p · ≈ 27h · Moderate Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,… Shares: Sagas, Historical, Historical Fiction

Secrets of the Morning V.C. Andrews · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shadowed by her tortured past, Dawn has a bright new life of glimmering hopes... Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share. Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the… Shares: Sagas, Domestic fiction, Families

Orley Farm Anthony Trollope · 1861 · ★ 4.0 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Demanding When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil. Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives… Shares: Manners and customs, Domestic fiction, Great Britain, Social life and customs

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope · 1861 · ★ 4.4 · 540p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Domestic fiction, Social life and customs

Mr. Scarborough's Family Anthony Trollope · 1883 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Demanding It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book - though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all… Shares: Fathers and sons, Domestic fiction, Social life and customs

The gold coast Nelson DeMille · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Life Mal Peet · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations. Shares: Social classes, Great Britain, Families, Social life and customs

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy · 1874 · ★ 3.9 · 491p · ≈ 16h · Challenging 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,… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · ★ 3.7 · 801p · ≈ 26h · Demanding The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families, Social life and customs

Jane Austen Louise Ross · 1995 · ★ 5.0 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Here, republished for the first time, is the first edition text of Jane Austen's much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the first editions are unique documents in the history of English literature, Volume 2 of 3 of Sense and Sensibility Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held… Shares: Sagas, Historical, Historical Fiction

The travelling bachelor James Fenimore Cooper · 1828 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuberant chant of praise for American representative democracy, encapsulating the utopian vision that… Shares: Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Social life and customs

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