Products
Mortgage
Travel
Degrees
Real Estate
more
Sign In
|
My Lists
Most Popular
Top Brands
List Central
My Lists
All Categories
:
Books
:
Fiction
:
Society & Social Issues
:
portrait of a society
Narrow These Results
By Price:
Under $10
$10 - $20
$20 - $30
$30 - $50
Over $50
By Subgenre:
•
portrait of a society
« Back to all options
By Subgenre:
cultures in conflict
(79)
tradition & change
(77)
hope & despair
(51)
individual & society
(31)
success & failure
(30)
class conflict
(27)
loyalty & betrayal
(15)
innocence & experience
(13)
past & present
(12)
love & duty
(11)
youth & age
(11)
dream & reality
(10)
wealth & poverty
(10)
freedom & constraints
(9)
ideal & reality
(9)
reform & revolution
(9)
Catholic & Protestant
(7)
Old & New Worlds
(6)
life & death
(6)
humanity & technology
(5)
justice & injustice
(5)
remembering & forgetting
(5)
art & life
(4)
city & country
(4)
history & myth
(4)
individual & family or group
(4)
love & loss
(4)
oppression & oppressed
(4)
pride & shame
(4)
North & South (USA)
(3)
honor & dishonor
(3)
nature & culture
(3)
personal & political
(3)
punishment & crime
(3)
twists of fate
(3)
Jew & Gentile
(2)
active & passive
(2)
civilized & "uncivilized"
(2)
fate & free will
(2)
good & evil
(2)
peace & war
(2)
power struggles
(2)
reality & illusion
(2)
sickness & health
(2)
truth & falsehood
(2)
body & soul
(1)
courage & cowardice
(1)
faith & belief
(1)
faith & science
(1)
inner & outer worlds
(1)
isolation & sociability
(1)
love & hate
(1)
sacred & profane
(1)
sanity & insanity
(1)
sin & temptation
(1)
spirit & matter
(1)
virtue & vice
(1)
more ...
By Subgenre:
family, general
(64)
family breakdown
(50)
decline of fortune
(46)
troubled marriages
(15)
legacy
(13)
mothers & sons
(11)
fathers & sons
(10)
friendship between men or boys
(10)
sisters
(10)
uncles
(10)
fathers & daughters
(9)
widows
(7)
death of grandparent
(6)
friendship between women or girls
(6)
orphans
(6)
brothers
(5)
death of parent
(5)
divorce & separation
(5)
grandmothers
(5)
poor relations
(5)
pregnancy & childbirth
(5)
secrets
(5)
family solidarity
(4)
illegitimate children
(4)
illness
(3)
mothers & daughters
(3)
absent fathers
(2)
adoption, cross-cultural
(2)
aunts
(2)
death of child
(2)
infants
(2)
returning home
(2)
reunions & gatherings
(2)
adoption, general
(1)
brothers & sisters
(1)
death of spouse
(1)
extended
(1)
friendship, general
(1)
generational conflict
(1)
roommates
(1)
stepfathers
(1)
twins, triplets, etc.
(1)
widowers
(1)
more ...
By Subgenre:
social criticism
(69)
family sagas & chronicles
(67)
historical fiction
(59)
satire
(32)
short-story collections
(32)
Bildungsroman
(29)
psychological realism
(29)
sense of place
(28)
autobiographical
(24)
life stories
(23)
anthology (single author)
(15)
epic novels
(11)
pastoral
(11)
debut
(8)
short-story cycles
(8)
fables & parables
(7)
multiple points of view
(7)
novels of ideas
(7)
experimental, general
(6)
novels of manners
(6)
epistolary
(5)
framed narratives
(5)
literary mysteries
(5)
mythological motifs
(5)
road novels
(5)
Biographical Fiction
(4)
academic novels
(4)
chronicle of a life
(3)
fragmented narrative
(3)
inspirational
(3)
modernism
(3)
Surrealism
(2)
allegories
(2)
dialect
(2)
fiction about writing fiction
(2)
involuted, self-referential
(2)
literary adventure novels
(2)
metafiction
(2)
picaresque
(2)
realism
(2)
roman a clef
(2)
Avant-Pop
(1)
anthropomorphism
(1)
avant-garde
(1)
cinematic techniques
(1)
conditions of England novels
(1)
dialogue novels
(1)
diary novels
(1)
dream-like
(1)
experimental, language
(1)
fairy tales
(1)
illustrated novels
(1)
literary thrillers
(1)
magic realism
(1)
naturalism
(1)
noir
(1)
novellas
(1)
postmodernism
(1)
stream of consciousness
(1)
utopian-dystopian
(1)
more ...
By Subgenre:
boredom, ennui
(47)
ambition
(28)
moral corruption
(26)
despair
(20)
alienation
(19)
loneliness
(19)
disillusionment
(18)
hypocrisy
(18)
passion
(17)
martyrdom
(16)
greed
(15)
redemption
(13)
revenge
(13)
questing
(12)
cynicism
(11)
memory
(11)
pride
(11)
snobbery
(11)
hero worship
(10)
pretentiousness
(10)
self-realization
(10)
ambivalence
(9)
angst
(9)
controlling behavior
(9)
deception
(9)
egotism
(9)
idealism
(9)
madness
(9)
hope
(8)
Weltschmerz
(7)
daydreams & fantasies
(7)
fear
(6)
grief, mourning
(6)
obsession
(6)
power
(5)
regret
(5)
courage
(3)
heroism
(3)
survival
(3)
degradation
(2)
empathy
(2)
fetishism
(2)
innocence
(2)
paranoia
(2)
rebelliousness
(2)
rivalry
(2)
self-destructiveness
(2)
thrill-seeking
(2)
anger
(1)
brutality & cruelty
(1)
burnt-out
(1)
charity, generosity
(1)
competitiveness
(1)
decadence
(1)
desire
(1)
escapism
(1)
forgiveness
(1)
genius
(1)
gluttony
(1)
guilt
(1)
hedonism
(1)
independence
(1)
introversion, shyness
(1)
melancholy
(1)
moral blindness
(1)
resentment
(1)
sacrifice
(1)
searching for home
(1)
suffering
(1)
temptation
(1)
vanity
(1)
more ...
By Subgenre:
social climbers, upstarts, & parvenus
(58)
upper class
(57)
aristocrats
(48)
socialists
(41)
artists
(22)
heirs
(13)
historical figures
(13)
single young women
(12)
doctors, physicians
(11)
peasants
(11)
working class
(11)
writers
(11)
bourgeoisie
(10)
cads & rakes
(10)
middle class
(10)
odd couples & mismatched pairs
(10)
clergy, general
(9)
gossips
(9)
lesbians
(9)
newlyweds
(9)
pedants
(9)
politicians
(9)
revolutionaries
(9)
charmers
(8)
immigrants
(8)
exiles & emigres
(6)
antiheroes
(5)
dreamers
(5)
femmes du monde
(5)
gay men
(5)
hippies
(5)
intellectuals
(5)
mentors
(5)
poor whites
(5)
clowns & jesters
(4)
dropouts from society
(4)
inventors
(4)
landowners
(4)
matriarchs
(4)
ministers
(4)
outlaws
(4)
prostitutes, call girls, & escorts
(4)
rubes & bumpkins
(4)
scoundrels
(4)
serfs
(4)
eccentrics
(3)
pioneers
(3)
refugees
(3)
spies
(3)
star-crossed lovers
(3)
students
(3)
tourists
(3)
wanderers
(3)
cowboys
(2)
expatriates
(2)
gangsters
(2)
impostors
(2)
junkies
(2)
low-lifes
(2)
sadists
(2)
sailors
(2)
social reformers & crusaders
(2)
troubled youth
(2)
Roman Catholics
(1)
actors & actresses
(1)
bohemians
(1)
detectives
(1)
evangelists
(1)
exotic dancers/strippers
(1)
freaks
(1)
has-beens & wanna-bes
(1)
hustlers & con artists
(1)
judges, magistrates
(1)
liars
(1)
mistresses
(1)
physicists
(1)
pimps
(1)
priests
(1)
prophets & seers
(1)
runaways
(1)
scientists
(1)
transvestites, transgenderists
(1)
veterans, Vietnam
(1)
veterans, general
(1)
voyeurs
(1)
yuppies
(1)
more ...
By Format:
Paperback
(214)
Hardcover
(59)
Audio
(35)
Digital
(1)
By Author:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
(37)
Sherwood Anderson
(15)
George Eliot
(9)
Angela Thirkell
(8)
Anthony Powell
(8)
Pearl S. Buck
(6)
Arnold Bennett
(5)
Charles Dickens
(5)
Marcel Proust
(5)
Vanora Bennett
(5)
Eudora Welty
(4)
Frank Waters
(4)
Graham Greene
(4)
Manil Suri
(4)
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
(4)
Richard Russo
(4)
Stendhal
(4)
William Makepeace Thackery
(4)
Evelyn Waugh
(3)
John Hawkes
(3)
Joyce Cary
(3)
Mary Wesley
(3)
Philip Roth
(3)
Saul Bellow
(3)
Shirley Hazzard
(3)
Tracy Chevalier
(3)
Alberto Blest Gana
(2)
Alice Hoffman
(2)
Ama Ata Aidoo
(2)
Annie Ernaux
(2)
Anthony Trollope
(2)
Chekhov Anton
(2)
Constance Black Garnett
(2)
Ernest Gaines
(2)
Ernest J. Gaines
(2)
George Garrett
(2)
Hitomi Kanehara
(2)
Jackie Calhoun
(2)
James Ellroy
(2)
James Purdy
(2)
Jeffrey Eugenides
(2)
Jessica Hagedorn
(2)
John DOS Passos
(2)
John Yount
(2)
Joseph Roth
(2)
Jules Verne
(2)
Kathleen Cambor
(2)
Knut Hamsun
(2)
Kunal Basu
(2)
Luigi Pirandello
(2)
Mildred Walker
(2)
Mordecai Richler
(2)
Nelson Algren
(2)
Peter Carey
(2)