Domestic Fiction
Books tagged Domestic Fiction.
Summaries
Middlemarch
Middlemarch is George Eliot’s sweeping 1871–1872 Victorian novel set in the fictional rural Midlands town of Middlemarch between 1829 and 1832, weaving the interconnected personal, social, and political lives of the town’s diverse residents, led by idealistic young Dorothea Brooke, to explore the constraints of gender and class, the tension between individual ambition and social convention, and the slow, uneven pace of moral and political progress in pre-Victorian England.
Wuthering Heights
A gothic tale of passion, obsession, and vengeance spanning two generations at isolated Yorkshire farmhouses, as the foundling Heathcliff's all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw destroys both their families, echoes through their children's lives, and only finds resolution through the reconciliation of Catherine's daughter and Hareton Earnshaw.
Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet must overcome her prejudice against the proud Mr. Darcy and learn that first impressions can deceive, as misjudgments, misunderstandings, and hidden truths give way to genuine love.