Books like The Mill on the Floss
A young woman's passionate nature collides with provincial convention in mid-Victorian England, and the cost of being too much for your world is devastating.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Drunk at a country fair, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to a sailor, and years later, when he has become the respected mayor of Casterbridge, his past comes back to him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield, a poor country girl in Victorian Wessex, is sent to claim kinship with a rich family and is wronged by its son, and the world goes on punishing her for it.
Middlemarch
An idealistic young woman in 1830s provincial England marries a dry old scholar, and her story intertwines with a doctor's ruinous marriage and the whole web of a town on the eve of reform.
My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, a fiery girl on a struggling farm in the New South Wales bush, wants a life of art and books, and refuses to marry.
Silas Marner
A solitary weaver in rural England loses his gold, adopts a foundling child, and discovers that human connection is worth more than anything he hoarded.
Cosima
Deledda's late novel of her own girlhood in Nuoro, Sardinia, where a girl from a strict, conventional household secretly writes stories and dreams of a life in literature.
Sometimes a Great Notion
On a river in Oregon logging country, the stubborn Stamper family keeps cutting timber during a strike that has turned the whole town against them, while the bookish younger brother comes home with a grudge.
Fathers and Sons
A young nihilist clashes with his traditionalist host in pre-reform Russia, and the generational conflict becomes a portrait of an entire society on the verge of transformation.
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Esme, a motherless girl, grows up under the sorting table of the Scriptorium in Oxford, where her father and other lexicographers are compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, and starts to keep the words they throw away.
The Fishermen
Four brothers in 1990s Akure, Nigeria, skip school to fish in a forbidden river, and a madman's prophecy that the eldest will be killed by a fisherman sets the family on a course towards tragedy.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
Anna Karenina
A married aristocrat's affair with a dashing officer unravels her life, her family, and her sanity against the backdrop of Russian high society.