Category
page 1Social novels

Les Misérables
1862 novel by Victor Hugo
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Grapes of Wrath
1939 novel by John Steinbeck

The Jungle
novel by Upton Sinclair
social novel
novel that features a specific social ill, or contemporary political issue, to draw attention to it.

The Mysteries of Paris
novel by Eugène Sue

Umrao Jaan Ada
1899 Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa
Do Oxen Low When Mangers are Full?
novel by Panas Myrnyi

Sybil
novel by Benjamin Disraeli

The White Collar (novel)
1926 novel by Mikheil Javakhishvili

Clotel
'''''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