Money Lessons From 5 Favorite Classic Novels

We often can’t see our own mistakes through our rose-colored lenses. We can see errors more easily made by others when we are less emotional.

Five Classics Illustrate Money Lessons: – Decadence Of Money – Social status – Reversal of fortune – Accounting fraud and corporate greed – Virtues of work – Financial independence

Packed with money lessons.  The lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda likely serve as a model for this work.

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET BY DAVID MITCHELL

For white men to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONTE

“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.” This Victorian novel is rich with morality, love of money and social status, inheritance, and gender income inequality.

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JANE EYRE BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE

“I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

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THE SCARLET LETTER BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter addresses public shaming, social isolation, conformity, earning money, and feminine resilience.

Indeed, The Beautiful and Damned, based on F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,  is an excellent example of how not to handle money. They discussed not needing to save money for their old age.

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