THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard of New Fortunes & Their Silver Wedding Journey (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Boston to New York to Germany: Love, Labor, RealismBy William Dean Howells
Length43h 10m
About this audiobook
Gathering three works centered on Basil and Isabel March, The March Family Trilogy traces a marriage across decades while charting the changing moral landscape of postbellum America. Their Wedding Journey begins as a refined travel narrative, attentive to manners, landscape, and conversational nuance; A Hazard of New Fortunes deepens the design into one of Howells's major realist social novels, confronting capitalism, labor unrest, immigration, journalism, and urban inequality in New York; Their Silver Wedding Journey returns the couple to travel, memory, and transatlantic reflection. Together, the books exemplify Howells's lucid, ironic, ethically alert realism. William Dean Howells, often called the "Dean of American Letters," was uniquely positioned to write such fiction. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly, champion of literary realism, friend of Mark Twain and Henry James, and observer of American cultural transformation, he sought to replace romantic excess with moral and social truth. His own middle-class experience, cosmopolitan travel, and reformist sympathies inform the Marches' intelligence, hesitations, and humane limitations. This trilogy is highly recommended to readers interested in American realism, marriage as social inquiry, and fiction that turns ordinary life into historical evidence. It rewards patient reading with wit, psychological delicacy, and a searching portrait of a nation modernizing uneasily.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length43 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 19, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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