What are some books written at least 100 years ago that struck you as very modern feeling when you read them?
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton springs to mind for me. It was published in 1920, but something about it feels so current.
I also think Mark Twain has this modern sensibility in the things he wrote.
In a different way, I think the 1909 sci-fi short story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster was extremely prescient and felt weirdly like it could have been written yesterday the way it describes how we have become reliant on technology.
Which ones spring to mind for you and what is it about them that strikes you as more modern than you’d expect?
(My first attempt to post this was removed for asking for recommendations, but I intended the post as a discussion starter. Hopefully this one passes the test!)
by Comprehensive-Fun47