#SlowBurn Classics Collection
A Classic Anthology of Courtship, Gothic Romance, Social Realism, Rural Tragedy, and Coming-of-AgeBy Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, George Sand, Fanny Burney, Rudyard Kipling, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Length249h 7m
About this audiobook
#SlowBurn Classics Collection gathers novels of gradual emotional unfolding, where attachment develops through misunderstanding, social constraint, moral testing, and patient recognition. Spanning comedy of manners, Gothic-inflected romance, social realism, regional fiction, imperial adventure, and domestic coming-of-age, the volume situates the "slow burn" within a long literary history rather than a contemporary fashion. Its most memorable courtships and intimacies emerge through precisely observed conversation, withheld feeling, and the pressure of family, class, place, and reputation. The collection brings together major British, Irish, Canadian, and French voices writing from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth. Its contributors collectively illuminate the transformations of the novel: from the satirical scrutiny of polite society and the rebellious energies of Romanticism to Victorian realism's ethical and economic concerns, and later fiction's attention to colonial worlds and youthful self-fashioning. Across these differing national and historical contexts, love becomes inseparable from questions of women's agency, labor, inheritance, education, and belonging. Ideal for readers, students, and book clubs, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to trace how delayed desire and earned intimacy are shaped by changing literary conventions. Read together, these works reward close attention to pacing, voice, and social observation, while fostering a revealing dialogue between canonical traditions and distinct cultural perspectives.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length249 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Wives and Daughters
26GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 9)
2Wives & Daughters (Illustrated Edition)
27APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton (pt. 1)
3Wives and Daughters (pt. 1)
28APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton (pt. 2)
4Wives and Daughters (pt. 2)
29APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton (pt. 3)
5Wives and Daughters (pt. 3)
30APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton (pt. 4)
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6Wives and Daughters (pt. 4)
31LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster
7Wives and Daughters (pt. 5)
32Volume I. 1812-1842 (pt. 1)
8Wives and Daughters (pt. 6)
33Volume I. 1812-1842 (pt. 2)
9Wives and Daughters (pt. 7)
34Volume I. 1812-1842 (pt. 3)
10Wives and Daughters (pt. 8)
35Volume I. 1812-1842 (pt. 4)
11Wives and Daughters (pt. 9)
36Volume I. 1812-1842 (pt. 5)
12Wives and Daughters (pt. 10)
37Volume II. 1842-1852 (pt. 1)
13Wives and Daughters (pt. 11)
38Volume II. 1842-1852 (pt. 2)
14Wives and Daughters (pt. 12)
39Volume II. 1842-1852 (pt. 3)
15Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne
40Volume II. 1842-1852 (pt. 4)
16Great Expectations
41Volume II. 1842-1852 (pt. 5)
17Great Expectations (Illustrated Edition)
42Volume II. 1842-1852 (pt. 6)
18GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 1)
43Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 1)
19GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 2)
44Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 2)
20GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 3)
45Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 3)
21GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 4)
46Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 4)
22GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 5)
47Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 5)
23GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 6)
48Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 6)
24GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 7)
49Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 7)
25GREAT EXPECTATIONS (pt. 8)
50Volume III. 1852-1870 (pt. 8)
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