Social Llife & Customs Books

Letters from an American Farmer

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

Hazlitt wrote that of the three notable writers whom the eighteenth century had produced, in the North American colonies, one was "the author (whoever he was) of the American Farmer's Letters." Crevec..

Bushido, the Soul of Japan

Inazo Nitobe

Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a Western audience, and has been subsequently translated into..

Leonora

Maria Edgeworth

Leonora is a novel written by Maria Edgeworth and published in 1806. Although Edgeworth is known for having her novels address issues of nationalism in an Anglo-Irish context, Leonora instead privileg..

Back to the Woods

George V. Hobart

Back to the Woods is a collection of humorous stories written by George V. Hobar. The stories are John Henry's burglarJohn Henry's country copJohn Henry's ghost storyJohn Henry's happy home...

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is considered one of his most profound. Dickens’ father spent ..

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

A Knight of the Nets is a social classes fiction written by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, who was a British novelist and teacher. Her career is an illustration of the capacity of woman under stre..

A Romance of the Republic

Lydia Maria Child

A Romance of the Republic is a fiction novel based on slavery and racism written by Lydia Maria Francis Child, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activi..

An Englishman Looks at the World

H. G. Wells

An Englishman Looks at the World is a 1914 essay collection by H. G. Wells containing journalistic pieces written between 1909 and 1914. The book consists of twenty-six pieces ranging from five to six..