Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Enlightenment · Autobiography
Subject guide
Society
Explore 82 works associated with Society in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Middlemarch
George Eliot · Victorian · Novel
A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen · 19th Century · Drama
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · Modernism · Novel cycle
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Novel
Piers Plowman
William Langland · Medieval · Allegorical poetry
The Swindler
Francisco de Quevedo · Golden Age · Poetry / satire
Maxims
François de La Rochefoucauld · Early Modern · Maxims
Fables
Jean de La Fontaine · Early Modern · Fables / poetry
An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope · Enlightenment · Poetry / satire
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope · Enlightenment · Poetry / satire
The Dunciad
Alexander Pope · Enlightenment · Poetry / satire
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding · Enlightenment · Novel
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · Enlightenment · Novel
Rameau’s Nephew
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
D’Alembert’s Dream
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
Evelina
Fanny Burney · Enlightenment · Novel / diary
The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay
Fanny Burney · Enlightenment · Novel / diary
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
William Godwin · Enlightenment / Romantic · Political philosophy / fiction
Caleb Williams
William Godwin · Enlightenment / Romantic · Political philosophy / fiction
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac · Realism · Novel
Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac · Realism · Novel
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac · Realism · Novel
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac · Realism · Novel
Selected Poems
Matthew Arnold · Victorian · Poetry / criticism
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Nikolai Leskov · 19th Century · Fiction
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
Culture and Anarchy
Matthew Arnold · Victorian · Poetry / criticism
The Enchanted Wanderer
Nikolai Leskov · 19th Century · Fiction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
The Egoist
George Meredith · Victorian · Novel
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 19th Century · Novel / novella
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen · 19th Century · Drama
An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen · 19th Century · Drama
The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen · 19th Century · Drama
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen · 19th Century · Drama
The Division of Labor in Society
Émile Durkheim · Modern · Sociology
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells · Modern · Science fiction / social novel
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells · Modern · Science fiction / social novel
Suicide
Émile Durkheim · Modern · Sociology
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells · Modern · Science fiction / social novel
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 19th Century · Novel / novella
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells · Modern · Science fiction / social novel
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · Modernism · Novel / novella
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James · 19th Century · Novel / novella
The Ambassadors
Henry James · 19th Century · Novel / novella
The Golden Bowl
Henry James · 19th Century · Novel / novella
Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Russell · Modern · Philosophy / logic
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · Modernism · Novel / novella
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Modern · Philosophy / logic
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Émile Durkheim · Modern · Sociology
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford · Modernism · Novel
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis · Modern · Novel / satire
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis · Modern · Novel / satire
Parade’s End
Ford Madox Ford · Modernism · Novel
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis · Modern · Novel / satire
The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Novel / essays
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