Books About Class and Social Inequality

The reality of class — its invisible walls, its violence — in fiction that does not look away.

The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq by Washington Irving
Desert Gold by Zane Grey
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a utopian romance by William Morris
The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The story girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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