Family

Works to read

• Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac, 1835
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit, 1906
• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1924; revised 1942
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, 1812
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit, 1902
• The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (illustrator); traditional rhymes, 1916
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt, 1964
• Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, 1941 · Great Books
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas, 2010
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927 · Great Books
• Household Stories (Grimm's Fairy Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1812–1857
• The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley, 1856

Passages

• Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.

  — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• The family is the direct substantive reality of spirit. The unity of the family is one of feeling, the feeling of love.

  — G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right

• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex

  — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

• Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

• A FATHER had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves.

  — Aesop, Aesop's Fables

• do not trifle thus with me, a poor fisherman, who can hardly support his family!

  — Andrew Lang (ed.), The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: family, father, mother, children, household. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.