The Moral Novel: Fiction as ethical education

The Victorian novel as a school for sympathy — George Eliot, Tolstoy, and the writers who believed that paying close attention to other lives could make us better.

In this collection

• A Memory that Worked Overtime
• The Grasshopper and the Ants
• God's Way and Man'S
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The Parlor-Car
• After the Dance
• A Day's Pleasure
• The Two Wives
• Resurrection
• Traveller and Peasant
• Clement
• Why?
• The Jackdaw and the Doves
• The Willow
• Table Talk
• The Daughter of the Sorage
• The Lady of the Aroostook
• The Peasant and the Cucumbers
• Why there is Evil in the World
• The Ant and the Dove
• A Sleep and a Forgetting
• Indian Summer
• A Pair of Patient Lovers
• The Magic of a Voice
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