The Condition of England: The novel takes on the nation

The great social novels of Victorian Britain — Dickens, Gaskell, and Eliot turning fiction on the injustices of their age.

In this collection

• The Kavanagh
• Twenty Years Hence
• The Babe, B. A
• A Woman Is Only a Woman
• The Desert Drum
• Insidekick
• To be Held for Reference
• A Present
• The Ranch of the Tombstones
• The Nobleman's Wedding
• Shame
• Amy's Lover
• Planetoid 127
• The Double Traitor
• A Horsey Name
• The Ancient Order
• The Dog and the Playlet
• The Premature Burial
• Way-marks
• The Great Grey Plain
• In Queer Street
• Blow the Man Down
• Under the Knife
• William Dean Howells
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