S.NO.
Name
Novel
Features
Other specifications
1
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Epistolary novel-(Written in the form of a series of letters)
2
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones (1749)
Costly for poor
3
Charles Dickens
Pickwick
Papers
Serialized in a magazine known as “All the Round Year”
Serialization allowed readers to relish the suspense.
4
Leo Tolstoy
War and peace
Russian novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community.
5
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
About the terrible effects of industrialisation 6
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (1838)
Tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars in industrial city.
7
Emile Zola
Germinal (1885)
Life of a young miner in France in grim condition
8
Thomas Hardy
(Britain)
Mayor of Casterbridge (1886).
About breaking of old rural culture in England
9
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Give us a glimpse of the world of women in genteel rural society in early-nineteenth-century Britain.
10
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Jane is shown as independent and assertive.
Jane at the age of ten protests against the hypocrisy of her elders with startling bluntness.
11
Mary Ann Evans ( pen name George Eliot )
‘Silly novels by lady novelists’,
Eliot believed that novels gave women a special opportunity to express themselves freely.
12
R.L. Stevenson
Treasure Island
The colonisers appear heroic and honourable – confronting ‘native’
13
Rudyard Kipling
Jungle Book
The colonisers appear heroic and honourable – confronting ‘native’
14
G.A. Henty
Under Drake’s Flag
Historical adventure novels for boys
15
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey,( Pen name Susan Coolidge)
What Katy Did
Love stories written for adolescent girls
16
Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona
Love stories written for adolescent girls
17
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Colonised people were seen as primitive and barbaric, less than human; and colonial rule was considered necessary to civilise them
18
Joseph Conrad
Wrote novels that showed the darker side of colonial occupation.
19
Baba Padmanji
Yamuna
Paryatan (1857),
Earliest novel in Marathi
About the plight of widows.
20
Lakshman
Moreshwar Halbe
Muktamala (1861).
21
Naro Sadashiv
Risbud
Manjughosha (1868).
Marathi novel
22
Benjamin Disraeli
Henrietta Temple
O. Chandu Menon, translated into Malyalam
23
O. Chandu Menon,
Indulekha,
First modern novel in Malayalam.
Characters like Indulekha and Madhavan showed readers how Indian and foreign lifestyles could be brought together in an ideal combination.
24
Oliver Goldsmith
Vicar
of Wakefield
Kandukuri Viresalingam began translating in Telgu later stopped
25
Kandukuri
Viresalingam
Rajasekhara Caritamu
Telugu novel
26
Reynolds
Pickwick Abroad
More popular in India than Dickens’s original Pickwick Papers (1837).
27
Bharatendu Harishchandra
The pioneer of modern
Hindi literature,
28
Srinivas Das
Pariksha-Guru (The Master Examiner).
First proper Indian modern novel, cautioned young men of well-to-do families against the dangerous influences of bad company and consequent loose morals.
29
Devaki Nandan Khatri
Chandrakanta
fantasy
30
Premchand
Sewasadan (The Abode of Service),
Sewasadan deals mainly with the poor condition of women in society.
31
Rajanikanta Bardoloi
Manomati
First major historical novel in Assam
Burmese invasion
32
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Durgeshnandini
33
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Most popular novelist in Bengal
34
Ramashankar Ray
Saudamani.
First Oriya novel
35
Gulavadi Venkata Rao
Indirabai,
Kannada novel
36
R. Krishnamurthy
(penname
‘Kalki’. )
Ponniyin Selvan,
Most popular historical novelist in Tamil
37
Rokeya Hossein
Sultana’s Dream
Satiric fantasy
About a topsyturvy world in which women take the place of men.
38
Rokeya Hossein
Padmarag
About the need for women to reform their condition by their own actions.
39
Hannah Mullens ( Christian missionary)
Karuna o
Phulmonir Bibaran
40
Potheri Kunjambu,
(‘lower-caste’ writer from north Kerala)
Saraswativijaym
Saraswativijayam stresses the importance of education for the upliftment of the lower castes.
41
Advaita Malla
Burman
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam
About the lives of peasants and ‘low’ caste “Mallas”.
42
Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay
Anguriya Binimoy
First historical novel written in Bengal.
Its hero Shivaji engages in many battles against a clever and treacherous
Aurangzeb.
44
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Anandamath (1882)
A novel about a secret Hindu militia that fights Muslims to establish a Hindu kingdom.
“Vndemataram” the national song of India extracted from Anandamath
45
Sivarama Karanth
Chomana Dudi
46
Premchand
Rangbhoomi (The Arena),
Hero of novel Surdas is significant, belong to untouchable caste
The story of Surdas was inspired by Gandhi’s personality and ideas.
47
Premchand
Godan (The Gift of Cow),
Best-known work.
The novel tells the moving story of Hori and his wife Dhania, a peasant couple.
48
Banabhatta
Kadambari,
Harshavardhan reign
Note:
The novel first took firm root in England and France.
Henry Fielding, a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was ‘the founder of a new province of writing’ where he could make his own laws.
Vernacular – The normal, spoken form of a language rather than the formal, literary form.
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