
#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 JoyceLength116h 59m
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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 59 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1This Side of Paradise
26Chapter Two. (pt. 2)
2This Side of Paradise
27Stover at Yale
3Book One. The Romantic Egotist
28CHAPTER I
4Chapter 1 Amory, Son of Beatrice
29CHAPTER III
5Chapter 2 Spires and Gargoyles
30CHAPTER VI
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6Chapter 3 The Egotist Considers
31CHAPTER VIII
7Chapter 4 Narcissus Off Duty
32CHAPTER X
8Interlude
33CHAPTER XIII
9Book Two. The Education of a Personage
34CHAPTER XV
10Chapter 1 The Debutante
35CHAPTER XVII
11Chapter 2 Experiments in Convalescence
36CHAPTER XVIII
12Chapter 3 Young Irony
37CHAPTER XXI
13Chapter 4 The Supercilious Sacrifice
38CHAPTER XXIV
14Chapter 5 The Egotist Becomes a Personage
39CHAPTER XXVII
15Streets of Night
40Ishmael
16Streets of Night
41Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
17I
42PREFACE.
18III
43CHAPTER III.
19V
44CHAPTER V.
20VII
45CHAPTER VIII.
21VIII
46CHAPTER XI.
22IX
47CHAPTER XIV.
23Philosopher Jack
48CHAPTER XVII.
24Philosopher Jack
49CHAPTER XX.
25Chapter Two. (pt. 1)
50CHAPTER XXIII.