The Taste of Forbidden Love (Regency Romance - Book Set)
Classic Tales of Desire, Class, Seduction, and Social ProprietyBy Jane Austen, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Mary Hays, Georgette Heyer, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mrs. Loudon, D. K. Broster, Gilbert Parker, George MacDonald, R.D. Blackmore, Ivan Turgenev, Arthur W. Marchmont, Lady Sydney Morgan, Stanley John Weyman, Maria Edgeworth, Eliza Haywood, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mrs. Olifant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Stendhal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy
Length702h 53m
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The Taste of Forbidden Love gathers courtship plots, compromised reputations, clandestine attachments, and social prohibitions into a capacious romance anthology extending well beyond the Regency. Epistolary confession, comedy of manners, Gothic suspense, historical adventure, and psychological realism illuminate desire's collision with class, family, law, and conscience. Alongside sparkling scenes of drawing-room negotiation, the volume offers darker studies of seduction, exile, coercion, and moral consequence, placing the familiar pleasures of Regency romance in a longer European tradition. Its contributors form an unusually rich transnational company: British women novelists and moral philosophers converse with French, German, Russian, and Anglo-Irish masters of the novel. Their works emerge from the eighteenth-century rise of sensibility, the development of the domestic and historical novel, Romantic individualism, Victorian social criticism, and later popular historical romance. Across these distinct cultural moments, love becomes both a private passion and a test of inherited hierarchies, gendered expectations, and national ideals. Recommended for readers of romance history and literary fiction alike, this set provides a rewarding comparative encounter with forbidden love's many forms. It invites readers to trace changing conventions of intimacy across styles and centuries, while appreciating the sustained dialogue between pleasure, ethics, and social critique that these narratives create.
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GenreRomance
Length702 hrs 53 mins
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Publish dateMar 11, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Regency Romance Novels - Book Set
26CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
2Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
3CHAPTER ONE
28CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
4CHAPTER TWO
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
5CHAPTER THREE
30CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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6CHAPTER FOUR
31CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
7CHAPTER FIVE
32CHAPTER THIRTY
8CHAPTER SIX
33CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
9CHAPTER SEVEN
34CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
10CHAPTER EIGHT
35CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
11CHAPTER NINE
36CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
12CHAPTER TEN
37CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
38CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
14CHAPTER TWELVE
39CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN
40CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN
42CHAPTER FOURTY
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN
43CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
44CHAPTER FOURTY-TWO
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
45CHAPTER FOURTY-THREE
21CHAPTER NINETEEN
46CHAPTER FOURTY-FOUR
22CHAPTER TWENTY
47CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE
23CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
48CHAPTER FOURTY-SIX
24CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
49CHAPTER FOURTY-SEVEN
25CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
50CHAPTER FOURTY-EIGHT
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