70 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction (Historical Novels Edition)
Classic Historical Romances of Courtship, Intrigue, Passion, and Social DestinyBy Georgette Heyer, W. Somerset Maugham, Jane Austen, Guy de Maupassant, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mrs. Olifant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, D. K. Broster, Mary Angela Dickens, Robert Williams Buchanan, Georg Ebers, Philip Meadows Taylor, Gilbert Parker, Anthony Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, María Ruiz de Burton, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mary Hays, Louis Hémon, Madame de La Fayette, Lady Sydney Morgan, A. E. W. Mason
Length968h 8m
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70 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction (Historical Novels Edition) surveys love as a force shaped by inheritance, class, war, empire, religion, and social convention. Moving among courtship comedy, epistolary intrigue, Gothic intensity, realist social observation, sentimental romance, and historical adventure, the volume places canonical novels beside popular and transnational traditions. Its selections illuminate both the private drama of desire and the public structures that constrain or transform it, from marriage markets and family duty to revolution, migration, and national memory. The contributors collectively span the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries and represent British, French, American, Russian, and other literary cultures. Their varied careers connect the anthology to the rise of the novel, Romanticism, Victorian realism, sensation and Gothic fiction, naturalism, and modern social romance. Voices attentive to women's education and autonomy, colonial encounters, aristocratic worlds, provincial life, and changing notions of respectability make love a historical as well as emotional subject. Together, these writers reveal how fiction has repeatedly revised the meanings of attachment, fidelity, desire, and domestic life. Ideal for students, enthusiasts, and general readers, this capacious anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to compare forms, periods, and cultural assumptions within one volume. It rewards sustained reading with a rich dialogue between contrasting visions of romance, while providing a valuable map of love fiction's enduring literary and historical reach.
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GenreRomance
Length968 hrs 8 mins
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Publish dateApr 7, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Poison Pen of Romance - George Sand Collection (Series 5)
26CHAPTER XXIII
270 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction (Historical Novels Edition)
27CHAPTER XXIV
3Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers)
28CHAPTER XXV
4CHAPTER 1
29CHAPTER XXVI
5CHAPTER II
30CHAPTER XXVII
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6CHAPTER III
31CHAPTER XXVIII
7CHAPTER IV
32CHAPTER XXIX
8CHAPTER V
33CHAPTER XXX
9CHAPTER VI
34CHAPTER XXXI
10CHAPTER VII
35CHAPTER XXXII
11CHAPTER VIII
36CHAPTER XXXIII
12CHAPTER IX
37CHAPTER XXXIV
13CHAPTER X
38CHAPTER XXXV
14CHAPTER XI
39CHAPTER XXXVI
15CHAPTER XII
40CHAPTER XXXVII
16CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XXXVIII
17CHAPTER XIV
42CHAPTER XXXIX
18CHAPTER XV
43CHAPTER XL
19CHAPTER XVI
44CHAPTER XLI
20CHAPTER XVII
45CHAPTER XLII
21CHAPTER XVIII
46CHAPTER XLIII
22CHAPTER XIX
47CHAPTER XLIV
23CHAPTER XX
48CHAPTER XLV
24CHAPTER XXI
49CHAPTER XLVI
25CHAPTER XXII
50CHAPTER XLVII
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