Social novels

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

1939 novel by John Steinbeck

novel by Upton Sinclair

novel that features a specific social ill, or contemporary political issue, to draw attention to it.

novel by Eugène Sue

1899 Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa

novel by Panas Myrnyi

novel by Benjamin Disraeli

1926 novel by Mikheil Javakhishvili

'''''Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States''''' is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. Brown, who escaped from slavery in 1834 at the age of 20, published the book in London. He was staying after a lecture tour to evade possible recapture due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Set in the early nineteenth century, it is considered the first novel published by an African American and is set in the United States. Three additional versions wer