Social Llife & Customs Books

Ce que vaut une femme

Éline Roch

Ce que vaut une femme is a fiction story written by Éline Roch...

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

R. H. Gronow

A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful p..

The Plastic Age

Percy Marks

The Plastic Age is a novel by Percy Marks that tells the story of Hugh Carver, a student at a fictional men's college called Sanford. With contents that covered or implied hazing, smoking, drinking, p..

The Pretty Sister Of José

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Pretty Sister Of José is a  novella written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, later spawned both a play and silent film adaptation. Despite its public popularity, its (now rather tame) intense love..

The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete

Winston Churchill

The Dwelling-Place of Light is a 1917 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill, the last of his twenty-year run of best-sellers. Like The Inside of the Cup and A Far Country, the title ..

A Little Dinner at Timmins's

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society...

Stories of Red Hanrahan

William Butler Yeats

Stories of Red Hanrahan is an ireland social life and customs fiction story about the fictitious character Hanrahan written by William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures ..

Canadian Crusoes

Catherine Parr Traill

Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains is a novel by Catharine Parr Traill published in 1852, considered the first Canadian novel for children. Written after The Backwoods of Canada, it is T..