Lady Audleys Secret
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1862
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Hesperus Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843911890
Orphan Ellinor Arden is called from her secluded Paris home to London for the hearing of her estranged uncle’s will. To her surprise, she is named as the inheritor of his fortune, on condition that she marry his adopted son. Encouraged by her lawyer and guardian, the dashing Horace Margrave, she attaches herself irreversibly to this perfect stranger, but it soon becomes clear that her trust in a dead man’s wishes has been misplaced. Suspense-ridden sensation fiction from a master of the art, The Lawyer’s Secret and the counterpart piece presented here, "Mystery at Fernwood," are particularly valuable for affording a rare female take on an art form still dominated by the male viewpoint.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984854399
Graceful and lovely Lady Audley may not be all that she seems in this Victorian-era equivalent of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl—with an introduction by Flynn Berry, the Edgar Award–winning author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life Lady Audley is young, beautiful, and universally adored. Everyone comments on her sweet nature and her perfect marriage to the wealthy and aristocratic Sir Michael Audley. Sir Michael’s nephew Robert is equally struck by his new aunt’s angelic ways—until he notices the strange, terrifying effect Lady Audley has on his friend George Talboys. When George mysteriously vanishes, Robert is convinced that Lady Audley is neither as innocent nor as helpless as she appears, and he sets out to discover what secrets lie in Lady Audley’s past. A bestseller when it was first published in 1862, Lady Audley’s Secret shocked readers because it dared to suggest that beneath a perfect surface a woman might be willing to lie, con, and even kill for the life she wanted. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
Author : Mary E. Braddon
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486823776
Bigamy, arson, and murder are among the secrets a seemingly perfect lady is concealing in this 1862 "sensation novel," a source of intriguing insights into Victorian anxieties about social rank and identity.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191622206
'it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court' When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael's nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a tangled story of lies and deception, crime and intrigue, whose sensational twists turn the conventional picture of Victorian womanhood on its head. Can Robert's darkest suspicions really be true? Lady Audley's Secret was an immediate bestseller, and readers have enjoyed its thrilling plot ever since its first publication in 1862. This new edition explores Braddon's portrait of her scheming heroine in the context of the nineteenth-century sensation novel and the lively, often hostile debates it provoked. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425002684
It tells the story of Lady Audley who is young, beautiful, wicked, and manipulative. In spite of her revengeful schemes and criminal acts, the author creates sympathy for the heroine as she is a victim of social injustice. Set in the Victorian period, it keeps the reader guessing till the end with its surprising twits. It is one of the most widely read novels even today.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Royal Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774765814
Lady Audley's Secret plays on Victorian anxieties about the domestic sphere. Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years.
Author : Marlene Tromp
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1999-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438422334
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the richness of Braddon's oeuvre and the variety of critical approaches to it. Best known as the author of Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, Braddon also wrote penny dreadfuls, realist novels, plays, short stories, reviews, and articles. The contributors move beyond her two most famous works and reflect a range of current issues and approaches, including gender, genre, imperialism, colonial reception, commodity culture, and publishing history. Contributors include Jennifer Carnell, Jeni Curtis, Pamela K. Gilbert, Lauren Goodlad, Aeron Haynie, Heidi Holder, Gail Turley Houston, Heidi H. Johnson, Toni Johnson-Woods, James R. Kincaid, Elizabeth Langland, Eve Lynch, Graham Law, Katherine Montweiler, Lillian Nayder, Lyn Pykett, and Tabitha Sparks, and Marlene Tromp.