Literary Fiction
The Virginians
1858·436 pages
Twin brothers navigate love, war, and society between colonial Virginia and fashionable London in this Thackeray family saga.
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Twin brothers navigate love, war, and society between colonial Virginia and fashionable London in this Thackeray family saga.
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In a late Eighteenth Century setting, between fashionable London and backward Virginia, two twin brothers from the nobility spend their formative period trying to flee a domineering dowager mother in different ways--the older a saturnine, melancholy character, the younger an easy going type. Both, in their own way, succeed; but both reach old age feeling themselves equally swindled. The usual Thackeray touch of good humoured aristocratic melancholy aimed at bourgeois philisteism.
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Sexual content
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Courtship, marriages, and romantic rivalries; no explicit content
Violence & gore
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Wartime battles and deaths in the Seven Years' War; not graphic
Profanity
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Mild period oaths and language consistent with the era
Substance use
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Recurring social drinking and aristocratic gambling culture
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA characters or themes depicted
Religious content
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Passing references to church and period religious customs
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Colonial tensions and Revolution-era loyalties shape events
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Controlling parent; period slavery as Virginia plantation background
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