Best Books by Working-Class Authors

Perspectives too often absent from literary culture — fiction and memoir from working-class backgrounds.

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

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