Every Girl's Library - 50 Classics in One Volume
Fifty Timeless Tales of Girlhood, Friendship, Fantasy, Adventure, and Growing UpBy Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Johanna Spyri, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, J. M. Barrie, E. T. A. Hoffmann, George MacDonald, Gene Stratton-Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Eleanor H. Porter, L.T. Meade, Jean Webster, Dorothy Canfield, Angela Brazil, Susan Coolidge, Carolyn Wells, Martha Finley, Susan Warner, Mary Mapes Dodge, Selma Lagerlöf, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, E. Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Madeleine l'Engle
Length484h 46m
About this audiobook
Every Girl's Library gathers fifty classics into a capacious panorama of childhood, adolescence, imagination, and moral awakening. Its range encompasses domestic realism, school stories, fairy tale, fantasy, adventure, Bildungsroman, comic nonsense, and speculative voyage, placing intimate accounts of friendship and family beside enchanted kingdoms and daring expeditions. Familiar imaginative landmarks—including stories of hidden gardens, journeys beyond the ordinary, and girls negotiating independence—gain fresh force through their juxtaposition with less frequently foregrounded works. The volume draws together writers associated with nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, women's domestic fiction, Victorian and Edwardian fantasy, transatlantic juvenile publishing, and European folklore. Authors from Britain, North America, and continental Europe contribute markedly different cultural assumptions about education, class, nature, gender, duty, and self-fashioning. Canonical novelists stand alongside influential writers for young readers and collectors or reworkers of traditional tales, revealing how literature for girls has both transmitted social ideals and imagined their revision. Recommended for students, educators, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually broad route into the traditions that shaped young readers' literature. Its single-volume design invites comparison across genres and periods, encouraging readers to trace dialogues between realism and romance, discipline and freedom, inherited tales and modern aspirations. It is a valuable resource for discovering enduring narratives while assessing the diverse literary cultures from which they emerged.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length484 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 22, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Novels & Stories
2Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 1)
3Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 2)
4Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 3)
5Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 4)
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6Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 5)
7Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 6)
8Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 1)
9Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 2)
10Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 3)
11Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 4)
12Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 5)
13Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 6)
14Emma (Jane Austen) (pt. 7)
15Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 1)
16Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 2)
17Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 3)
18Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 4)
19Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 5)
20Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 6)
21Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 7)
22Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 8)
23Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 9)
24Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
25Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
26Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
27Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
28Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
29Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 6)
30Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 7)
31Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 8)
32Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 9)
33Rose in Bloom (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)
34Rose in Bloom (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 2)
35Rose in Bloom (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 3)
36Rose in Bloom (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 4)
37Rose in Bloom (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 5)
38Heidi (Johanna Spyri) (pt. 1)
39Heidi (Johanna Spyri) (pt. 2)
40Heidi (Johanna Spyri) (pt. 3)
41Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
42Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
43Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
44Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
45Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 5)
46Anne of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
47Anne of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 2)
48Anne of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 3)
49Anne of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 4)
50Anne of the Island (Lucy Maud Montgomery) (pt. 1)
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