#DarkAcademia Classics Collection
An Anthology of Academic Ambition, Secret Societies, Aesthetic Obsession, and Moral PerilBy F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, R. M. Ballantyne, Owen Johnson, Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth, Max Beerbohm, George Gissing, E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, Henry Blake Fuller, James Joyce
Length116h 43m
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#DarkAcademia Classics Collection gathers fiction, essays, fantasy, social satire, psychological study, and modernist experiment around the dark-academic preoccupations of learning, ambition, secrecy, beauty, moral compromise, and intellectual unrest. Its range moves from late-Victorian romance and realism through Edwardian wit to the fractured sensibilities of modernism. Particularly arresting are the collection's treatments of cloistered aspiration, aesthetic obsession, and the unsettling gap between cultivated ideals and lived experience, placing canonical texts in a newly resonant thematic conversation. The contributors span generations and literary cultures: Victorian popular fiction, Irish and British revivalism, American social realism, Edwardian comedy, and Anglo-American modernism. Together, writers associated with aestheticism, realism, the Celtic Revival, and experimental modernist prose reveal that "dark academia" is not a period label but a productive lens. Their varied engagements with schools, salons, libraries, class structures, artistic vocation, and youthful self-fashioning illuminate the cultural institutions that shape desire and exclusion. This volume is recommended for readers seeking both literary pleasure and critical breadth. It offers an accessible route into major authors while inviting comparison across styles, national traditions, and historical moments. Students, scholars, and admirers of atmospheric classic fiction alike will find a valuable anthology in its dialogue between elegance and anxiety, education and alienation, aspiration and consequence.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length116 hrs 43 mins
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Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1This Side of Paradise
26Chapter Five
2This Side of Paradise
27Chapter Six
3Book One. The Romantic Egotist
28Chapter Seven
4Chapter 1 Amory, Son of Beatrice
29Chapter Eight
5Chapter 2 Spires and Gargoyles
30Chapter Nine
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6Chapter 3 The Egotist Considers
31Chapter Ten
7Chapter 4 Narcissus Off Duty
32Chapter Eleven
8Interlude
33Chapter Twelve
9Book Two. The Education of a Personage
34Stover at Yale
10Chapter 1 The Debutante
35CHAPTER I
11Chapter 2 Experiments in Convalescence
36CHAPTER III
12Chapter 3 Young Irony
37CHAPTER VI
13Chapter 4 The Supercilious Sacrifice
38CHAPTER VIII
14Chapter 5 The Egotist Becomes a Personage
39CHAPTER X
15Streets of Night
40CHAPTER XIII
16I
41CHAPTER XV
17III
42CHAPTER XVII
18V
43CHAPTER XVIII
19VII
44CHAPTER XXI
20VIII
45CHAPTER XXIV
21IX
46CHAPTER XXVII
22Philosopher Jack
47Ishmael
23Chapter Two
48Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
24Chapter Three
49PREFACE.
25Chapter Four
50CHAPTER III.
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