dot books.

Topic

Rural Life.

11 books

The Story Girl

The Story Girl

L.M.

From $8.50

The Goose Man

The Goose Man

A German novel of a musician torn between art, love and a stifling provincial world, tracing an artist's ambitions and failures with searching psychological depth.

$8.50

The wheel of earth

The wheel of earth

A work whose title evokes the turning of the world and the cycles of human life.

$7.50

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterwork of a country girl wronged and hounded by fate, class and cruel morality, told against the fading beauty of rural Wessex.

From $8.50

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

Alice Hegan Rice, author of Mrs.

From $9.50

Summer

Summer

A young woman coming of age in a stifling New England village discovers desire, freedom and its costs over one transformative summer, in a spare and sensuous classic of American re

From $5.00

Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

From $6.50

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.

From $8.50

The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

On a brooding stretch of heathland, ambition, love and misunderstanding pull a handful of lives toward disaster.

From $8.00

Adam Bede

Adam Bede

George Eliot’s first novel brings rural labor, moral consequence, and intimate human conflict into a broad, patient work of Victorian realism.

From $8.50

The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss

A clever, passionate girl grows up bound to a brother she adores and a provincial world that cannot contain her.

From $9.00