What is some good literature in which social mobility is a theme?

Or poetry too, of course. That'd be interesting!

>>9415699
Fitzgerald, not just Gatsby, is pretty good for this.

>>9415714
Oh yeah, why did I not think of this? It's a great example! What is the morale in that regard, would you say?

Atlas Shrugged

Vanity Fair.

>>9415717
>What is the morale in that regard

Wealth and material goods are superficial and do not (directly) contribute to human happiness

>>9415699
I just wanted to come by and say that this is the worst thing in architecture since modernism.

>>9415699
The Count of Monte Cristo

Trust me lad this is the exact book you're looking for

>>9417072
That doesn't really cover social mobility in a realistic way, it's mainly a book about revenge and the effect of grudges

Dead Souls is technically about social mobility

>>9417066
It's absolute shit. Must be in America or Australia, I could bet

Dead Souls

Definitely not my diary desu

>>9417096
True in that it's not exactly realistic but social mobility is still a major theme.

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>>9417101
Demon's Souls > Dead Souls > Bloodborne >>>>>> Dark Souls

adventures of augie march by saul bellow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure

A central theme in Proust and much of Balzac.

>>9417103
Netherlands actually, sadly enough

>>9415699
nickels to ounces

Great Expectations

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Maupassant - Bel Ami

Essentially about a neet veteran who's a terrible human being but very attractive who uses rich bourgeoises Women as rungs to climb the social ladder.

>>9417026
this

>>9415714
came here to post this. grab a copy of gatsby, you can read it in a day

>>9415699
Red and Black by Stendhal

>>9417101
>>9417105
>Dead Souls

Never read it, but it's on my to-read list. How is social mobility a theme in it?

>>9418019
The entire plot is mocking the hierarchical social structure of aristocratic Russia by having the main character ascend in social status by buying the names of serfs that have died from local aristocrats. This makes it look, on paper, as though he is incredibly wealthy despite the fact that he neither needs land nor food for his "estate".

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>>9417066
As a Dutch architect I want to apologize for this gigantic fuckup monstrosity.

>>9417450
Underrated kek

>>9415706
99% of all Hiphop started from the bottom now we're her desu

>>9417066
>>9417103
>>9417425
>>9418451

You guys have terrible taste, Id love to come across something like this. You still have millions of other buildings to look at that don't have them

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>>9417457
Seconding these. 19th century lit is full of arrivistes.