
Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)
A Classic Anthology of Courtship, Intrigue, Gothic Desire, and Forbidden LoveBy D. K. Broster, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, 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, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grace Livingston Hill, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Fanny Fern, Lady Charlotte Bury, 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 MorganLength954h 8m
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Love & Passion Through The Ages gathers an unusually broad canon of historical, romantic, Gothic, realist, sentimental, and social fiction to examine desire as both private experience and public force. Spanning courtship, illicit attachment, marriage, betrayal, exile, inheritance, and class aspiration, the set places psychologically charged romances beside sweeping narratives of political upheaval and domestic constraint. Its range—from epistolary intrigue and irony to melodrama, regional portraiture, and tragic passion—reveals how love stories have repeatedly served as vehicles for moral inquiry and historical imagination. The contributors represent major traditions in British, French, Russian, American, Canadian, and transatlantic writing, while also bringing forward women's literary history and voices attentive to colonial, national, religious, and social difference. Enlightenment debates on sensibility and female education meet Victorian concerns with respectability, property, industrial change, and empire; later works introduce modern anxieties about individuality and desire. Collectively, these writers demonstrate that romance is never merely universal: it is shaped by institutions, conventions, and unequal freedoms. This boxed set is recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the literary history of love. Its juxtaposition of canonical and less frequently studied works invites comparison across periods, nations, and forms, making it valuable for students and general readers alike. Each narrative deepens the dialogue between passion and circumstance, encouraging sustained reflection on how fiction has imagined intimacy through time.
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GenreRomance
Length954 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 7, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Kenilworth (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXIII
2Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set)
27CHAPTER XXIV
3Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers)
28CHAPTER XXV
4CHAPTER 1
29CHAPTER XXVI
5CHAPTER II
30CHAPTER XXVII
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6CHAPTER III
31CHAPTER XXVIII
7CHAPTER IV
32CHAPTER XXIX
8CHAPTER V
33CHAPTER XXX
9CHAPTER VI
34CHAPTER XXXI
10CHAPTER VII
35CHAPTER XXXII
11CHAPTER VIII
36CHAPTER XXXIII
12CHAPTER IX
37CHAPTER XXXIV
13CHAPTER X
38CHAPTER XXXV
14CHAPTER XI
39CHAPTER XXXVI
15CHAPTER XII
40CHAPTER XXXVII
16CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XXXVIII
17CHAPTER XIV
42CHAPTER XXXIX
18CHAPTER XV
43CHAPTER XL
19CHAPTER XVI
44CHAPTER XLI
20CHAPTER XVII
45CHAPTER XLII
21CHAPTER XVIII
46CHAPTER XLIII
22CHAPTER XIX
47CHAPTER XLIV
23CHAPTER XX
48CHAPTER XLV
24CHAPTER XXI
49CHAPTER XLVI
25CHAPTER XXII
50CHAPTER XLVII