The Love of Romance - 50 Books in One Collection: The Greatest Romance Classics of All Time

Stendhal · Charles Dickens · William Shakespeare · Burton Egbert Stevenson · Charlotte Brontë · Anne Brontë · Emily Brontë · Henry James · Louisa May Alcott · Jane Austen · George Eliot · Walter Scott · Thomas Hardy · O. Douglas · Edith Wharton · Alexandre Dumas · Meredith Nicholson · Virginia Woolf · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Gaston Leroux · Grace Livingston Hill · Theodore Dreiser · Kate Chopin · Earl Derr Biggers · Fanny Burney · Georgette Heyer · H. G. Wells · E. M. Forster · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Leo Tolstoy · Elizabeth Gaskell · P.G. Wodehouse · R.D. Blackmore · Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · Madeleine L'Engle

2023年11月 · DigiCat

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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection. Content: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Play) Romeo & Juliet (Prose Version) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

作者简介

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal (1783-1842), was a prominent figure in 19th-century French literature. His novels are highly regarded for their keen psychological insight and the portrayal of the complexities of his characters' emotions and thoughts. Stendhal was born in Grenoble and served in Napoleon's army, an experience that would later inform his writing. He is perhaps most famous for 'Le Rouge et le Noir' (The Red and the Black, 1830) and 'La Chartreuse de Parme' (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), novels that exemplify his realistic narrative style and his preoccupation with the themes of ambition, love, and society. His modernist writing techniques, including the use of realism and the stream of consciousness, have led critics to regard him as a forerunner to later novelists. The collection 'The Love of Romance - 50 Books in One Collection' suggests a prolific output and a profound exploration of romantic themes, reflective of Stendhal's preoccupation with love as a powerful and transformative force. Stendhal's narrative style often employed irony and psychological analysis, a method he referred to as 'crystallization' in his seminal work on love, 'De l'Amour' (On Love, 1822). His work continues to be influential, offering timeless insights into the human condition and the nuanced interplay of emotion, intellect, and society.