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- Joseph Hergesheimer: Linda Condon (1919) (lack of purpose in life among the privileged and well-to-do towards the end of the 19th century)
- Booth Tarkington: Alice Adams (1921) (girl encouraged by her mother to become a social climber at her father's expense)
- Philip Barry: Holiday (1928) (eligible young man disinclined to fit in with the work ethic of his wealthy surroundings)
- Jessie Redmon Fauset: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1929) (the very rich seen from the angle of the less fortunate)
- Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949) (the lives and loves of a rich aristocratic family in inter-war Britain).
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