Literature · Nineteenth-Century Literature
A topic within Nineteenth-Century Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Charles Dickens
Traces a blacksmith's boy's rise into gentility through an anonymous fortune to argue that genteel status built on hidden, often criminal money corrupts exactly the character it is meant to improve.
about 12 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026George Eliot
A provincial town rendered with enough moral attention that ordinary compromise becomes as gripping as catastrophe.
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