Historical Romances – Boxed Set
A Sweeping Anthology of Gothic Passion, Regency Courtship, Social Conflict, and Love Across the AgesBy D. K. Broster, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mrs. Olifant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mary Angela Dickens, Robert Williams Buchanan, Georg Ebers, Philip Meadows Taylor, Gilbert Parker, Anthony Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, María Ruiz de Burton, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mary Hays, Louis Hémon, Madame de La Fayette, Lady Sydney Morgan, A. E. W. Mason
Length954h 8m
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Historical Romances – Boxed Set surveys the long evolution of romance as a mode for imagining the past, from courtly intrigue and epistolary experiment to Gothic intensity, social satire, adventure, realism, and modern psychological nuance. Its selection ranges across national traditions and centuries, placing novels of revolution, inheritance, war, colonial encounter, and domestic constraint beside tales of mystery and passionate conflict. Sweeping historical panoramas, sharply observed manners, and emotionally charged narratives make the volume a remarkably varied archive of the genre. The contributors collectively map the development of the novel through Enlightenment moral inquiry, Romantic historicism, Victorian social criticism, transatlantic realism, and early twentieth-century reinvention. Women writers appear prominently alongside major British, French, Russian, American, and other international voices, making visible the genre's sustained engagement with gender, class, nation, and authority. These diverse literary inheritances enrich historical romance not merely as escapism, but as a means of interpreting social memory and contested identities. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted general readers, this boxed set offers an unusually capacious introduction to historical romance's formal and cultural possibilities. Reading across its many perspectives invites comparison between styles, periods, and ethical concerns, while revealing an ongoing dialogue between private desire and public history.
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GenreRomance
Length954 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 2, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Kenilworth (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXIII
2Historical Romances – Boxed Set
27CHAPTER XXIV
3Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers)
28CHAPTER XXV
4CHAPTER 1
29CHAPTER XXVI
5CHAPTER II
30CHAPTER XXVII
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6CHAPTER III
31CHAPTER XXVIII
7CHAPTER IV
32CHAPTER XXIX
8CHAPTER V
33CHAPTER XXX
9CHAPTER VI
34CHAPTER XXXI
10CHAPTER VII
35CHAPTER XXXII
11CHAPTER VIII
36CHAPTER XXXIII
12CHAPTER IX
37CHAPTER XXXIV
13CHAPTER X
38CHAPTER XXXV
14CHAPTER XI
39CHAPTER XXXVI
15CHAPTER XII
40CHAPTER XXXVII
16CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XXXVIII
17CHAPTER XIV
42CHAPTER XXXIX
18CHAPTER XV
43CHAPTER XL
19CHAPTER XVI
44CHAPTER XLI
20CHAPTER XVII
45CHAPTER XLII
21CHAPTER XVIII
46CHAPTER XLIII
22CHAPTER XIX
47CHAPTER XLIV
23CHAPTER XX
48CHAPTER XLV
24CHAPTER XXI
49CHAPTER XLVI
25CHAPTER XXII
50CHAPTER XLVII
The Greatest Historical Novels of All TimeD. K. Broster, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mrs. Olifant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mary Angela Dickens, Robert Williams Buchanan, Georg Ebers, Philip Meadows Taylor, Gilbert Parker, Anthony Trollope, F. Scott Fitzgerald, María Ruiz de Burton, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mary Hays, Louis Hémon, Madame de La Fayette, Lady Sydney Morgan958h 30m4.6 (11)$2.99 · $0.00
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Almond, Wild Almond (Annotated)D. K. Broster13h 54m4.1 (66)$2 · $0.00
The Yellow Poppy (Annotated)D. K. Broster17h 21m3.8 (20)$2 · $0.00
The Dark Mile (Annotated)D. K. Broster11h 57m4.1 (88)$2 · $0.00
The Wounded Name (Annotated)D. K. Broster17h 17m$3 · $0.00
D. K. Broster Collection (Annotated)D. K. Broster132h 39m$2 · $0.00
Mr. Rowl (Historical Novel) (Annotated)D. K. Broster14h 40m4.3 (26)$2 · $0.00
The Jacobite Trilogy (Annotated)D. K. Broster38h 20m4.6 (124)$3 · $0.00
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The Jacobite TrilogyD. K. Broster38h 13m4.4 (264)$1 · $0.00
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The Jacobite TrilogyD. K. Broster38h 16m4.4 (278)$1 · $0.00
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The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m4.6 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Wishes from the HeartSophie Mays4h 9m4.7 (344)$15 · $0.00
Blizzard ShowdownShirlee McCoy5h 16m4.6 (1.1K)$12 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m4.6 (1.1K)$8 · $0.00
Arctic WitnessHeather Woodhaven5h 46m4.6 (985)$12 · $0.00
Following the TrailLynette Eason6h 35m4.6 (2.3K)$12 · $0.00
Her Duty Bound DefenderSharee Stover6h 30m4.6 (559)$12 · $0.00
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White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
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Her Brand of JusticeB.J. Daniels6h 48m4.6 (1.3K)$12 · $0.00
Search And DetectTerri Reed5h 51m4.6 (706)$24 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
Danger in the WildernessDarlene L. Turner6h 54m4.7 (299)$12 · $0.00
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