6 livros parecidos com Dombey e Filho
O Homem de Propriedade
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.
Temas em comum: Family, British and irish fiction, Families, Social life and customs
O Viajante Desinteressado
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.
Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature
O Rio Culpado
B..melodrama is perennial and the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied' T. S. Eliot ('Wilkie Collins and Dickens') Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here. All proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. The…
Temas em comum: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature
Esposas e Filhas
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
Temas em comum: Fathers and daughters, Social conditions, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs
O Arco-Íris
(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.
Temas em comum: Family, British and irish fiction, Families, Social life and customs
Os Anos
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…
Temas em comum: Family, British and irish fiction, Families, Social life and customs