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fathers and daughters in fiction

The Mayor of Casterbridge

By Thomas Hardy

La père Goriot

By Honoré de Balzac

The legacy of Cain

By Wilkie Collins

Doctor Thorne

By Anthony Trollope

The vicar's daughter

By George MacDonald

Disgrace

By J. M. Coetzee

Mirror image

By Danielle Steel

A complicated kindness

By Miriam Toews

Public secrets

By Nora Roberts

High Lonesome

By Louis L'Amour

Love Falls

By Esther Freud

A simple story

By Mrs. Inchbald

The Emperor and the Kite

By Jane Yolen

Girl at Sea

By Maureen Johnson

Interrupting chicken

By David Ezra Stein

The little ships

By Louise Borden

Burger's daughter

By Nadine Gordimer

The Hanged Man

By Francesca Lia Block

Catalyst

By Laurie Halse Anderson

Ormond

By Charles Brockden Brown

Flirting with Pete

By Barbara Delinsky

Shadow of a sun

By A. S. Byatt

Beach Music

By Pat Conroy

Badlands

By Robert Kroetsch