#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
Length247h 26m
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.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (22)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length247 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Wives and Daughters
2Wives & Daughters (Illustrated Edition)
3Wives and Daughters
4Chapter I. The Dawn of a Gala Day
5Chapter II. A Novice Amongst the Great Folk
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6Chapter III. Molly Gibson's Childhood
7Chapter IV. Mr. Gibson's Neighbours
8Chapter V. Calf-love
9Chapter VI. A Visit to the Hamleys
10Chapter VII. Foreshadows of Love Perils
11Chapter VIII. Drifting into Danger
12Chapter IX. The Widower and the Widow
13Chapter X. A Crisis
14Chapter XI. Making Friendship
15Chapter XII. Preparing for the Wedding
16Chapter XIII. Molly Gibson's New Friends
17Chapter XIV. Molly Finds Herself Patronized
18Chapter XV. The New Mamma
19Chapter XVI. The Bride at Home
20Chapter XVII. Trouble at Hamley Hall
21Chapter XVIII. Mr. Osborne's Secret
22Chapter XIX. Cynthia's Arrival
23Chapter XX. Mrs. Gibson's Visitors
24Chapter XXI. The Half-sisters
25Chapter XXII. The Old Squire's Troubles
26Chapter XXIII. Osborne Hamley Reviews His Position
27Chapter XXIV. Mrs. Gibson's Little Dinner
28Chapter XXV. Hollingford in a Bustle
29Chapter XXVI. A Charity Ball
30Chapter XXVII. Father and Sons
31Chapter XXVIII. Rivalry
32Chapter XXIX. Bush-fighting
33Chapter XXX. Old Ways and New Ways
34Chapter XXXI. A Passive Coquette
35Chapter XXXII. Coming Events
36Chapter XXXIII. Brightening Prospects
37Chapter XXXIV. A Lover's Mistake
38Chapter XXXV. The Mother's Manœuvre
39Chapter XXXVI. Domestic Diplomacy
40Chapter XXXVII. A Fluke, and What Came of It
41Chapter XXXVIII. Mr. Kirkpatrick, Q.C.
42Chapter XXXIX. Secret Thoughts Ooze Out
43Chapter XL. Molly Gibson Breathes Freely
44Chapter XLI. Gathering Clouds
45Chapter XLII. The Storm Bursts
46Chapter XLIII. Cynthia's Confession
47Chapter XLIV. Molly Gibson to the Rescue
48Chapter XLV. Confidences
49Chapter XLVI. Hollingford Gossips
50Chapter XLVII. Scandal and Its Victims
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