#FakeDating Classics Collection
Courtship, Deception, and Desire in the Marriage PlotBy Frances Burney, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Anita Loos, Henry James
Length143h 23m
About this audiobook
#FakeDating Classics Collection gathers courtship plots, social masquerades, strategic engagements, and performed identities from across the long nineteenth century and its afterlives. Moving among comedy of manners, epistolary fiction, realist social panorama, romance, satire, and psychological novel, the volume reveals "fake dating" not as a merely modern trope but as a durable device for testing class, gender, money, reputation, and desire. Its standout situations—feigned attachments that become moral experiments, public performances that expose private feeling, and calculated alliances that unsettle inherited expectations—show the formal versatility of the convention. The contributors span British, French, and American literary traditions, bringing together writers associated with the eighteenth-century novel of sensibility, Romantic and popular romance, Victorian realism, aesthetic comedy, transatlantic modernity, and the novel of manners. Their varied social worlds—aristocratic salons, marriage markets, provincial communities, cosmopolitan drawing rooms, and commercial modernity—make deception and courtship legible as historical practices as well as narrative pleasures. Collectively, these voices illuminate how intimacy is shaped by institutions and how performance may both enforce and resist social norms. Ideal for students, scholars, and pleasure readers alike, this collection offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with a familiar premise. Readers will find educational insight in its historical breadth and sustained delight in the dialogue among radically different styles, sensibilities, and visions of love.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length143 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Wings of the Dove
2Book First
3Book Second
4Book Third
5Book Fourth
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6Book Fifth (pt. 1)
7Book Fifth (pt. 2)
8Book Sixth (pt. 1)
9Book Sixth (pt. 2)
10Book Seventh
11Book Eighth
12Book Ninth
13Book Tenth (pt. 1)
14Book Tenth (pt. 2)
15Evelina
16Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
17ORIGINAL DEDICATION.
18LETTER III [Written some months after the last]
19LETTER XIII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION Tuesday, April 12. My dear Sir,
20LETTER XVII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION Friday Morning, April 15.
21LETTER XXII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION Monday Morning, April 18.
22LETTER XXIV - MR VILLARS TO EVELINA Berry Hill, April 22.
23LETTER XXXIII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION May 13th.
24LETTER XXXV - SIR JOHN BELMONT TO LADY HOWARD Paris, May 11.
25LETTER XLIII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION
26LETTER XLVII - EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. Holborn, June 18th.
27LETTER LI - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION.
28LETTER LV - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. July 4th.
29LETTER LXI - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. Bristol Hotwells, August 28th.
30LETTER LXV - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. Clifton, Sept. 20th.
31LETTER LXIX - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. Sept. 30th.
32LETTER LXXIII - MR. VILLARS TO EVELINA. Berry Hill, Oct. 3rd.
33LETTER LXXVII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. Clifton, Oct. 7th.
34LETTER LXXIX - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. October 9th.
35LETTER LXXXII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION. Clifton, Oct. 13th.
36LETTER LXXXIV - EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS.
37Dangerous Liaisons
38Dangerous Liaisons
39VOL. I.
40PREFACE.
41LETTER I.
42LETTER II.
43LETTER III.
44LETTER IV.
45LETTER V.
46LETTER VI.
47LETTER VII.
48LETTER VIII.
49LETTER IX.
50LETTER X.
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