10 Gilded Age Classics
Ten Stories of Wealth, Ambition, Class, Marriage, and Moral Unease in an Age of Industrial PowerBy Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Robert Barr, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser
Length140h 48m
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10 Gilded Age Classics gathers six major American writers whose fiction interrogates the glitter, instability, and moral contradictions of the late nineteenth century. Moving from Mark Twain's mordant social satire and Louisa May Alcott's domestic and reform-minded narratives to Henry James's psychological nuance, Edith Wharton's scrutiny of elite ritual, Robert Barr's brisk popular storytelling, and Theodore Dreiser's naturalist social vision, the volume reveals the era as far more than a pageant of wealth. Its varied prose registers make class ambition, gendered constraint, commercial modernity, and the tension between appearance and experience central literary concerns. The contributors collectively map a formative period in American letters, when realism, regional and domestic fiction, satire, transatlantic consciousness, and emerging naturalism competed and overlapped. Their differing social positions and artistic methods illuminate both the privileges sustained by Gilded Age culture and the anxieties it generated. Together, these voices connect literary craft to debates over individual freedom, social mobility, consumption, marriage, and institutional power. This anthology is especially valuable for readers seeking a concentrated yet capacious introduction to Gilded Age literature. It invites comparison across styles and moral perspectives, offering educational insight into how fiction recorded, contested, and reshaped an unequal modern America. Read as a dialogue, these classics disclose the era's enduring relevance.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length140 hrs 48 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sir George Tressady (Vol.1&2) (Annotated)
26IX
2Age of Innocence
27X
3Book I (pt. 1)
28XI
4Book I (pt. 2)
29XII
5Book I (pt. 3)
30XIII
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6Book II (pt. 1)
31XIV
7Book II (pt. 2)
32XV
8Book II (pt. 3)
33XVI
9The House of Mirth
34XVII
10BOOK ONE (pt. 1)
35XVIII
11BOOK ONE (pt. 2)
36XIX
12BOOK ONE (pt. 3)
37XX
13BOOK ONE (pt. 4)
38XXI
14BOOK TWO (pt. 1)
39XXII
15BOOK TWO (pt. 2)
40XXIII
16BOOK TWO (pt. 3)
41XXIV
17The Custom of the Country
42XXV
18I
43XXVI
19II
44XXVII
20III
45XXVIII
21IV
46XXIX
22V
47XXX
23VI
48XXXI
24VII
49XXXII
25VIII
50XXXIII
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