The Greatest Romance Novels of American Literature
A Classic Anthology of Love, Society, and American Life from the Nineteenth Century to the Jazz AgeBy Henry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Barr, Grace Livingston Hill, Randall Parrish, Gene Stratton-Porter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Length114h 18m
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The Greatest Romance Novels of American Literature surveys the capacious meanings of romance in the American tradition: courtship and marriage, moral testing, social ambition, regional belonging, and the haunting claims of memory. Its selections range from Gothic and allegorical modes to domestic realism, sentimental fiction, historical adventure, and the polished modern novel of manners. Across these varied forms, love becomes not merely a private feeling but a lens through which questions of class, gender, inheritance, freedom, and national identity are examined. The volume gathers major and popular voices whose careers map shifting American literary cultures from the nineteenth century into the Jazz Age. Henry James, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and F. Scott Fitzgerald bring psychological and social complexity to intimate relations, while Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Grace Livingston Hill, Gene Stratton-Porter, Randall Parrish, and Robert Barr broaden the field through domestic, inspirational, regional, and adventurous narratives. Together, these writers reveal romance as a flexible genre shaped by realism, sentimental traditions, Gothic imagination, and modern disillusionment. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare competing visions of love and social life within one volume. Its breadth invites sustained reflection on how changing styles and historical pressures transform the romance novel, fostering a productive dialogue among canonical and widely read traditions.
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GenreRomance
Length114 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
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Table of contents
110 American Romance Classics
2Age of Innocence
3Book I (pt. 1)
4Book I (pt. 2)
5Book I (pt. 3)
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6Book II (pt. 1)
7Book II (pt. 2)
8Book II (pt. 3)
9Little Women
10PART FIRST.
11CHAPTER I. PLAYING PILGRIMS.
12CHAPTER II. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
13CHAPTER III. THE LAURENCE BOY.
14CHAPTER IV. BURDEN.
15CHAPTER V. BEING NEIGHBORLY.
16CHAPTER VIII. JO MEETS APOLLYON.
17CHAPTER IX. MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR.
18CHAPTER X. THE P. C. AND P. O.
19CHAPTER XI. EXPERIMENT.
20CHAPTER XII. CAMP LAURENCE.
21CHAPTER XIII. CASTLES IN THE AIR.
22CHAPTER XIV. SECRETS.
23CHAPTER XV. A TELEGRAM.
24CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS.
25CHAPTER XVII. LITTLE FAITHFUL.
26CHAPTER XVIII. DARK DAYS.
27CHAPTER XIX. AMY'S WILL.
28CHAPTER XX. CONFIDENTIAL.
29CHAPTER XXII. PLEASANT MEADOWS.
30SECOND PART.
31CHAPTER XXIV. GOSSIP.
32CHAPTER XXV. THE FIRST WEDDING.
33CHAPTER XXVI. ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS.
34CHAPTER XXVII. LITERARY LESSONS.
35CHAPTER XXVIII. DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES.
36CHAPTER XXIX. CALLS.
37CHAPTER XXX. CONSEQUENCES.
38CHAPTER XXXI. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT.
39CHAPTER XXXII. TENDER TROUBLES.
40CHAPTER XXXIII. JO'S JOURNAL.
41CHAPTER XXXIV. A FRIEND.
42CHAPTER XXXV. HEARTACHE.
43CHAPTER XXXVI. BETH'S SECRET.
44CHAPTER XXXVII. NEW IMPRESSIONS.
45CHAPTER XXXVIII. ON THE SHELF.
46CHAPTER XXXIX. LAZY LAURENCE.
47CHAPTER XL. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.
48CHAPTER XLI. LEARNING TO FORGET.
49CHAPTER XLII. ALL ALONE.
50CHAPTER XLIII. SURPRISES.
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