
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'EngleLength479h 58m
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
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (26)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length479 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 22, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Anne of Green Gables + Anne of Avonlea + Anne of the Island (Annotated)
26CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
2Novels & Stories
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
3Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
28CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
4CHAPTER ONE
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
5CHAPTER TWO
30CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
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6CHAPTER THREE
31CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
7CHAPTER FOUR
32CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
8CHAPTER FIVE
33CHAPTER THIRTY
9CHAPTER SIX
34CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
10CHAPTER SEVEN
35CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
11CHAPTER EIGHT
36CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
12CHAPTER NINE
37CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
13CHAPTER TEN
38CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
14CHAPTER ELEVEN
39CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
15CHAPTER TWELVE
40CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
16CHAPTER THIRTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
17CHAPTER FOURTEEN
42CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
18CHAPTER FIFTEEN
43CHAPTER FOURTY
19CHAPTER SIXTEEN
44CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE
20CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
45CHAPTER FOURTY-TWO
21CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
46CHAPTER FOURTY-THREE
22CHAPTER NINETEEN
47CHAPTER FOURTY-FOUR
23CHAPTER TWENTY
48CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE
24CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
49CHAPTER FOURTY-SIX
25CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
50CHAPTER FOURTY-SEVEN