A Cornucopia of Knowledge: 24 Didactic Fiction Books
Moral Tales, Social Critique, and Reformist Fiction from the Enlightenment to ModernityBy George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, Irving Bacheller, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Sarah Fielding, T. S. Arthur, H. G. Wells, J. G. Holland, Mary H. Eastman, Brand Whitlock, James Oppenheim, Hannah More, Silas Xavier Floyd, George Horace Lorimer, George Griswold Livermore, Margaret M. Robertson, Eleanora H. Stooke, A. L. O. E., Horatio Jr. Alger, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Ruskin
Length218h 45m
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A Cornucopia of Knowledge: 24 Didactic Fiction Books gathers a capacious tradition in which narrative becomes an instrument of moral inquiry, social observation, and practical instruction. Across novels, tales, juvenile literature, domestic fiction, allegory, and reform-minded prose, the volume traces changing conceptions of character, education, labor, gender, class, and civic responsibility. Its range—from realist social criticism and historical romance to exemplary narratives and speculative fiction—reveals didactic writing not as a narrow genre, but as a flexible literary mode capable of provoking sympathy, debate, and self-examination. The contributors collectively span the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries and represent British and American literary cultures shaped by Enlightenment pedagogy, evangelical reform, Victorian moral discourse, women's writing, abolitionist thought, social realism, and emerging modern concerns. Voices associated with philosophical advocacy, popular fiction, children's literature, journalism, and utopian speculation bring distinct ideological and aesthetic commitments to the shared question of how stories might teach. Their juxtaposition illuminates both the persistence of instructional literature and the tensions within it: between discipline and freedom, convention and reform, private virtue and public justice. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad comparative encounter with literature's educative ambitions. It offers students, scholars, and general readers an accessible archive of varied forms and viewpoints, inviting close attention to the dialogue among its texts. Read together, these works deepen understanding of how fiction has shaped—and contested—ideas of knowledge, conduct, and social change.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length218 hrs 45 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Coelebs In Search of a Wife
26Middlemarch
2PREFACE.
27Middlemarch
3CHAPTER V.
28BOOK V
4CHAPTER IX.
29BOOK VI
5CHAPTER XIII.
30BOOK VII
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6CHAPTER XVII.
31BOOK VIII
7CHAPTER XXI.
32PRELUDE
8CHAPTER XXIV.
33BOOK I.
9CHAPTER XXVII.
34MISS BROOKE. (pt. 1)
10CHAPTER XXXI.
35MISS BROOKE. (pt. 2)
11CHAPTER XXXIV.
36BOOK II.
12CHAPTER XXXVII.
37OLD AND YOUNG. (pt. 1)
13CHAPTER XLI.
38OLD AND YOUNG. (pt. 2)
14CHAPTER XLV.
39BOOK III.
15CHAPTER XLVIII.
40WAITING FOR DEATH. (pt. 1)
16Horace Chase
41WAITING FOR DEATH. (pt. 2)
17CHAPTER I
42BOOK IV.
18CHAPTER III
43THREE LOVE PROBLEMS. (pt. 1)
19CHAPTER V
44THREE LOVE PROBLEMS. (pt. 2)
20CHAPTER VII
45BOOK V.
21CHAPTER X
46THE DEAD HAND. (pt. 1)
22CHAPTER XIII
47THE DEAD HAND. (pt. 2)
23CHAPTER XVI
48BOOK VI.
24CHAPTER XX
49THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE. (pt. 1)
25CHAPTER XXIV
50THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE. (pt. 2)
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