Modern History
The eighteen nineties
Holbrook Jackson · narrated by Moss
2026
12h 13m
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Holbrook Jackson's landmark study of the 1890s, the decade of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book, when art turned decadent and daring. He captures a brief, brilliant moment of English culture before it burned out. The essential portrait of the fin de siecle.
Inside this audiobook
22 chapters
- 1INTRODUCTION12m
- 2CHAPTER I FIN DE SIÈCLE—1890–190042m
- 3CHAPTER II PERSONALITIES AND TENDENCIES60m
- 4CHAPTER III THE DECADENCE45m
- 5CHAPTER IV OSCAR WILDE: THE LAST PHASE49m
- 6CHAPTER V AUBREY BEARDSLEY36m
- 7CHAPTER VI THE NEW DANDYISM31m
- 8CHAPTER VII THE INCOMPARABLE MAX23m
- 9CHAPTER VIII SHOCKING AS A FINE ART23m
- 10CHAPTER IX PURPLE PATCHES AND FINE PHRASES31m
- 11CHAPTER X THE DISCOVERY OF THE CELT25m
- 12CHAPTER XI THE MINOR POET21m
- 13CHAPTER XII FRANCIS THOMPSON29m
- 14CHAPTER XIII JOHN DAVIDSON40m
- 15CHAPTER XIV ENTER—G.B.S.33m
- 16CHAPTER XV THE HIGHER DRAMA27m
- 17CHAPTER XVI THE NEW FICTION39m
- 18CHAPTER XVII RUDYARD KIPLING33m
- 19CHAPTER XVIII ART AND LIFE29m
- 20CHAPTER XIX THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING33m
- 21CHAPTER XX BRITISH IMPRESSIONISTS33m
- 22CHAPTER XXI IN BLACK AND WHITE39m
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