What are some of the best books that fit in the realism literature series?

Answer by  Nixie (70)

Mark Twain´s novels. The novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, although mainly for children, depicts realistically people´s everyday lives, and even tackles subjects such as alcoholism.

Answer by  daveandrews (383)

If one was to go to the begginings of literary realism then its an idea to read George Elliots "Middlemarch", a novel that creates such a wide world of characters that one looks on them as real people Madame Bouvary by Flaubert is also fitting to the series with attention to details.

Answer by  Bess2728 (682)

Here are a few seminal works of literary realisom: British: "Middlemarch" George Eliot; American: "The Rise of Silas Lapham" William Dean Howells; French: "Madame Bovary" Gustave Flaubert.

Answer by  Gus28 (683)

My two favorite authores in this genre as Mark Twain and Henry James. James' PORTRAIT OF A LADY is a classic of Victorian Literature as well as realism. Twain's work is humorous and perhaps easier to read. two of twain's are adventures of huckleberry finn and the innocents abroad.