Lady Audley's Secret - Softcover

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481810685 ISBN 13: 9781481810685

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels." The plot centers on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s. The plot was summarized by literary critic Elaine Showalter (1982): "Braddon's bigamous heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two and sets fire to a hotel in which her other male acquaintances are residing." Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years with headlines.

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Review:

"It's gripping stuff...and is relished in every dramatic plot twist by Juliet Stevenson, who enjoys keeping the listener guessing until the final revelation." (The Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A sensationalist novel that took Victorian society by storm.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1481810685
• ISBN 13: 9781481810685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276