40 Gilded Age Romances
Forty Classic Tales of Courtship, Marriage, Class, Inheritance, and Social AmbitionBy Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Guy de Maupassant, Mrs. Oliphant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmund Yates, Robert Barr, Booth Tarkington, Albert Ross, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Leo Tolstoy, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, George William Curtis, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry James, Mrs. Alexander, Gene Stratton-Porter, Horatio Alger, David Graham Phillips, Theodore Dreiser, Anna Katharine Green, Grace Livingston Hill, Wilkie Collins, Mary Augusta Ward, George Meredith, George Gissing
Length705h 43m
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40 Gilded Age Romances gathers courtship plots, domestic dramas, social comedies, and tales of ambition into a capacious portrait of love under the pressures of wealth, class, reputation, and modern change. Its range extends from realist observation and sentimental narrative to mystery-inflected intrigue, melodrama, satire, and psychologically searching fiction. Alongside stories of marriageable daughters, self-made men, and imperiled inheritances, the volume includes distinguished explorations of provincial life, cosmopolitan manners, and the moral costs of desire, situating romance within the turbulent social imagination associated with the Gilded Age. The collection's contributors form a notably transatlantic and multilingual lineage, bringing together major American, British, French, and Russian writers whose careers span Victorian realism, popular fiction, naturalism, and the early twentieth-century novel. Their varied social positions and artistic commitments illuminate romance as more than private feeling: it becomes a means of examining women's constrained agency, economic aspiration, inherited privilege, urbanization, and shifting sexual and domestic ideals. Read together, these voices reveal the continuities and tensions between canonical literary culture and the broad nineteenth-century marketplace for romance. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking both pleasure and perspective. It offers an accessible comparative archive of changing love plots and social codes, inviting students and general readers alike to trace conversations among divergent styles, nations, and moral visions. Its breadth makes it an illuminating introduction to romance as a serious cultural form.
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GenreRomance
Length705 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Diary of a Chambermaid (Annotated)
2Middlemarch
3Prelude
4Book I. Miss Brooke. (pt. 1)
5Book I. Miss Brooke. (pt. 2)
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6Book II. Old and Young. (pt. 1)
7Book II. Old and Young. (pt. 2)
8Book III. Waiting for Death. (pt. 1)
9Book III. Waiting for Death. (pt. 2)
10Book IV. Three Love Problems. (pt. 1)
11Book IV. Three Love Problems. (pt. 2)
12Book V. The Dead Hand. (pt. 1)
13Book V. The Dead Hand. (pt. 2)
14Book VI. The Widow and the Wife. (pt. 1)
15Book VI. The Widow and the Wife. (pt. 2)
16Book VII. Two Temptations. (pt. 1)
17Book VII. Two Temptations. (pt. 2)
18Book VIII. Sunset and Sunrise. (pt. 1)
19Book VIII. Sunset and Sunrise. (pt. 2)
20Finale.
21The House of Mirth
22BOOK ONE (pt. 1)
23BOOK ONE (pt. 2)
24BOOK ONE (pt. 3)
25BOOK ONE (pt. 4)
26BOOK TWO (pt. 1)
27BOOK TWO (pt. 2)
28BOOK TWO (pt. 3)
29The Forsyte Saga
30The Forsyte Saga
31Book 1: The Man of Property
32TO EDWARD GARNETT
33PART I (pt. 1)
34PART I (pt. 2)
35PART II (pt. 1)
36PART II (pt. 2)
37PART II (pt. 3)
38PART III (pt. 1)
39PART III (pt. 2)
40Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte
41I
42II
43III
44IV
45Book 2: In Chancery
46TO JESSIE AND JOSEPH CONRAD
47PART I (pt. 1)
48PART I (pt. 2)
49PART II (pt. 1)
50PART II (pt. 2)
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