Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)
A Classic Anthology of Courtship, Intrigue, Gothic Desire, and Forbidden LoveBy 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
Length958h 43m
About this audiobook
Love & Passion Through The Ages gathers an unusually broad canon of historical, romantic, Gothic, realist, sentimental, and social fiction to examine desire as both private experience and public force. Spanning courtship, illicit attachment, marriage, betrayal, exile, inheritance, and class aspiration, the set places psychologically charged romances beside sweeping narratives of political upheaval and domestic constraint. Its range—from epistolary intrigue and irony to melodrama, regional portraiture, and tragic passion—reveals how love stories have repeatedly served as vehicles for moral inquiry and historical imagination. The contributors represent major traditions in British, French, Russian, American, Canadian, and transatlantic writing, while also bringing forward women's literary history and voices attentive to colonial, national, religious, and social difference. Enlightenment debates on sensibility and female education meet Victorian concerns with respectability, property, industrial change, and empire; later works introduce modern anxieties about individuality and desire. Collectively, these writers demonstrate that romance is never merely universal: it is shaped by institutions, conventions, and unequal freedoms. This boxed set is recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the literary history of love. Its juxtaposition of canonical and less frequently studied works invites comparison across periods, nations, and forms, making it valuable for students and general readers alike. Each narrative deepens the dialogue between passion and circumstance, encouraging sustained reflection on how fiction has imagined intimacy through time.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length958 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 7, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Kenilworth (Annotated)
2Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)
3Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 1)
4Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 2)
5Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 3)
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6Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 4)
7Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 5)
8Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 6)
9Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 7)
10Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 8)
11Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers) (pt. 9)
12The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan)
13Volume I (pt. 1)
14Volume I (pt. 2)
15Volume II (pt. 1)
16Volume II (pt. 2)
17Volume III (pt. 1)
18Volume III (pt. 2)
19Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous)
20Volume I (pt. 1)
21Volume I (pt. 2)
22Volume I (pt. 3)
23Volume II (pt. 1)
24Volume II (pt. 2)
25Volume II (pt. 3)
26Volume III (pt. 1)
27Volume III (pt. 2)
28Volume III (pt. 3)
29Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 1)
30Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 2)
31Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 3)
32Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini) (pt. 4)
33The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 1)
34The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 2)
35The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 3)
36The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 4)
37The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 5)
38The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 6)
39The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 7)
40The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 8)
41The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 9)
42The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 10)
43The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 11)
44The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 12)
45The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 13)
46The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette)
47Part I
48Part II
49Part III
50Part IV
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