The Red and the Black
Stendhal
the provincial yardstick, which measures by money, against the Paris one, which measures by birth, and the speech to the jury in chapter 41 of Book II.
The Slum
Aluísio Azevedo
the townhouse looking down on the tenement (chapter II, chapter VII), Dona Isabel waiting to return to her former circle (chapter III), the shopkeeper who learns to be another man (chapter XIII), the avenue that admits only people with a letter of surety (chapter XXII) and the confectioner's on Rua do Ouvidor (chapter XXIII).