Tag: Social criticism

A Tale of Two Cities

History Novel

Its immortal opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." set the stage for a sweeping narrative that combines drama, glory...

A Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens

The Communist Manifesto

Philosophy Political Science Non-Fiction

The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were...

The Communist Manifesto

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Karl Marx Friedrich Engels

Vanity Fair

Fiction Novel

Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and famili...

Vanity Fair

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Bleak House

Fiction Novel

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters...

Bleak House

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Charles Dickens

The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer

Philosophy Non-Fiction

Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in 1888, and published in 1889. Twilight of t...

The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer

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Friedrich Nietzsche

A Room With a View

Romance Novel

A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Ita...

A Room With a View

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Edward M. Forster

Hard Times

Fiction Novel

Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English so...

Hard Times

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Charles Dickens

Middlemarch

History Novel

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight instal...

Middlemarch

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George Eliot

Pygmalion

Comedy Romance

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancien...

Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw

Reginald

Fiction Humour

Saki was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro (1870 – 1916). His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian...

Reginald

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Saki

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Fiction Novel

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige; literally Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey across Sweden) is...

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

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Selma Lagerlof

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Fiction Novel

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Ac...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Anne Brontë

Sabotage

Political Science

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficien...

Sabotage

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Satires

Poetry Satire

These are a collection of sixteen satiric monologues where Juvenal does his best to poke his finger in the eye of the Roman society of his day for not...

Satires

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal)

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