Social Llife & Customs Books

Will Warburton

George Gissing

Will Warburton: A Romance of Real Life was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, two years after Gissing's death. Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who,..

The Unclassed

George Gissing

The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London in the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. Both believe in social change but do not know how to bring i..

The Paying Guest

George Gissing

Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a light on class struggles in the Victorian era, The Paying Gu..

The Whirlpool

George Gissing

Harvey Rolfe was old enough to dine with deliberation, young and healthy enough to sauce with appetite the dishes he thoughtfully selected. You perceived in him the imperfect epicure. His club had no ..

Thyrza

George Gissing

There were three at the breakfast-table—Mr. Newthorpe, his daughter Annabel, and their visitor (Annabel's Cousin), Miss Paula Tyrrell. It was a small, low, soberly-furnished room, the walls covered wi..

Children of India

Janet Harvey Kelman

Before America was discovered by Columbus men here had strange ideas about the shape of the world. Men in India had thought of that too, long before anyone in Britain did, and this is the picture of t..

Christian Marriage Indissoluble - A Plain Sermon

James Galloway Cowan

Marriage, you know, was instituted in the time of man’s innocency.  God judged that it was not good for man to be alone; He therefore gave him a help meet for him.  That help was a creature ..

The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann

Joel Chandler Harris

It was a very good thing for Hamp that he married Aunt Minervy Ann, otherwise he would have become a wanderer and a vagabond when freedom came. It was a fate he didn’t miss a hair’s breadth; he “broke..