Alice Adams

Anne Shirley's youngest daughter grows up fast while her brothers go to war. A home front story about the family that waits and the news that keeps arriving.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Three generations of a wealthy family treat people the way they treat property. The saga that won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize, complete in one volume.

John Galsworthy

Two bad marriages and a whole town watching. Eliot follows every thread of debt, gossip and ambition until you understand exactly how each life narrowed.

George Eliot

Four generations of fathers doing to their sons exactly what was done to them. Butler's attack on Victorian family piety was too savage to publish in his lifetime.

Samuel Butler

Heathcliff is taken in by the Earnshaws and spends his life avenging what they did to him. Two households, two generations and a grudge that outlives almost everyone.

Emily Bronte