The Greatest Historical Romance Novels of All Time
A Sweeping Anthology of Courtship, Intrigue, Gothic Passion, and Social ChangeBy Jane Austen, 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, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, D. K. Broster, 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, Georgette Heyer
Length972h 39m
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Spanning the eighteenth century to the modern era, *The Greatest Historical Romance Novels of All Time* maps the enduring dialogue between private desire and public history. Its selections range from epistolary seduction narratives, Gothic inheritances, and domestic comedies of manners to adventure romances, realist social chronicles, and transatlantic tales of conquest and displacement. Courtly intrigue, revolutionary upheaval, imperial encounter, ancestral memory, and forbidden attachment supply its varied historical landscapes. Landmark narratives of aristocratic society, provincial life, war, and national transformation reveal romance not as escapism alone, but as a form for testing the pressures history places upon intimacy. The volume assembles writers from Britain, France, Russia, the United States, Canada, and beyond, including foundational novelists of sentiment and the marriage plot, Victorian chroniclers, realist innovators, popular romancers, and early women writers whose work enlarged the genre's moral and political reach. Their collective achievement intersects with Enlightenment fiction, Romanticism, Gothic revival, Victorian historical narrative, realism, and early twentieth-century modern sensibility. Across distinct national traditions, these voices illuminate gender, class, race, inheritance, and power as historically contingent conditions of love. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually broad education in the historical romance tradition. Reading across its contrasts invites attention to changing narrative forms and competing visions of the past, while fostering a rich dialogue between canonical and less frequently encountered works.
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GenreRomance
Length972 hrs 39 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 2, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1James Norman Hall - Ultimate Collection
2The Greatest Historical Romance Novels of All Time
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 Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham) (pt. 1)
34The Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham) (pt. 2)
35The Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham) (pt. 3)
36The Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham) (pt. 4)
37The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 1)
38The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 2)
39The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 3)
40The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 4)
41The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 5)
42The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 6)
43The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 7)
44The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 8)
45The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 9)
46The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 10)
47The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 11)
48The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 12)
49The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) (pt. 13)
50The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette)
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