10 Iconic Gilded Age Novels
Ten Classic Novels of Wealth, Class, Corruption, and Conscience in Gilded Age AmericaBy Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Robert Barr, Louisa May Alcott
Length140h 48m
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10 Iconic Gilded Age Novels gathers fiction that anatomizes the glitter, inequity, aspiration, and moral uncertainty of post–Civil War America. Spanning social realism, satire, psychological portraiture, romance, and the adventurous popular tale, the volume traces a nation reshaped by industrial wealth, urban expansion, class mobility, and contested ideals of domestic life. Its standout depictions of drawing rooms, business culture, small-town pretension, and private ambition reveal the period's splendor as inseparable from its discontents. The collection brings together writers whose careers helped define American literature's movement from romantic convention toward modern social observation. Their varied sensibilities—comic, cosmopolitan, reformist, regional, and sharply naturalistic—illuminate the Gilded Age from different social positions and literary traditions. Collectively, these voices engage debates over gender, inheritance, consumption, democracy, and the ethical costs of success, placing familiar national myths under searching scrutiny. Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich encounter with a formative literary era. Reading these novels in conversation makes visible both their stylistic differences and their shared preoccupation with a rapidly changing America. The volume rewards sustained study with historical insight, aesthetic pleasure, and a compelling dialogue about wealth, power, and social belonging.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length140 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Vol. 1-3) (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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