
Regency Romance Novels - Book Set
Classic Courtship, Marriage, and Social Intrigue from the Enlightenment to Early RealismBy Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Leo Tolstoy, Mrs. Loudon, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, Stendhal, Goethe, D. K. Broster, George MacDonald, Ivan Turgenev, R.D. Blackmore, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Sydney Morgan, Mary Hays, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mrs. Olifant, Henry Fielding, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Bernardin de Saint-PierreLength674h 5m
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Regency Romance Novels - Book Set surveys courtship, sensibility, social ambition, and moral choice across a broad transnational history of the novel. Its selections range from epistolary intrigue and the comedy of manners to Gothic disturbance, historical romance, sentimental fiction, and psychologically acute realism. Drawing together drawing-room wit, scandalous plots, rural idylls, and narratives of revolution or empire, the volume situates Regency romance within the longer development of European prose fiction. Particularly striking are its juxtapositions of domestic comedy with tales of seduction, inheritance, political conscience, and perilous desire. The contributors represent British, Irish, French, German, and Russian traditions, spanning the eighteenth century through the Victorian and later historical-romance imagination. Austen, Burney, Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth, Morgan, Haywood, Hays, Cockburn, and Oliphant enlarge the field of women's writing on education, marriage, class, and autonomy, while Richardson, Fielding, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Stendhal, Goethe, Laclos, and others connect romance to realism, Romanticism, and social satire. Together, these voices reveal Regency culture as a literary crossroads rather than a narrowly bounded period. This set is recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and critical breadth. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare conventions of love, virtue, gender, rank, and nation across distinct styles and traditions. Students and general readers alike will find a valuable archive of the conversations through which romance became a major vehicle for social thought.
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GenreRomance
Length674 hrs 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 11, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Following of the Star (Annotated)
26CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
2Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
3CHAPTER ONE
28CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
4CHAPTER TWO
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
5CHAPTER THREE
30CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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6CHAPTER FOUR
31CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
7CHAPTER FIVE
32CHAPTER THIRTY
8CHAPTER SIX
33CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
9CHAPTER SEVEN
34CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
10CHAPTER EIGHT
35CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
11CHAPTER NINE
36CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12CHAPTER TEN
37CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
38CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
14CHAPTER TWELVE
39CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN
40CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN
42CHAPTER FOURTY
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN
43CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
44CHAPTER FOURTY-TWO
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
45CHAPTER FOURTY-THREE
21CHAPTER NINETEEN
46CHAPTER FOURTY-FOUR
22CHAPTER TWENTY
47CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE
23CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
48CHAPTER FOURTY-SIX
24CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
49CHAPTER FOURTY-SEVEN
25CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
50CHAPTER FOURTY-EIGHT