Автор: Braddon M.E. Название: Lady Audley`s Secret ISBN: 1853267260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853267260 Издательство: Wordsworth Рейтинг: Цена: 495.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But this novel uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity.
Автор: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Название: Lady Audley`s Secret ISBN: 0141198842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141198842 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her?
Автор: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Название: Doctor`s wife ISBN: 019954980X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199549801 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Doctor`s Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon`s rewriting of Flaubert`s Madame Bovary in which she explores her frustrated heroine`s sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. This is the only edition of a fascinating work, and reproduces uncut the first edition of 1864.
Автор: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Название: Face in the glass & other gothic tales ISBN: 0712352082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780712352086 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A chilling collection of classic short stories by an important, but neglected, Victorian author. A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; and a haunted mirror that foretells of approaching death for those who gaze into its depths. These are just some of the haunting tales gathered in this classic collection of macabre short stories. Reissued in the Tales of the Weird series and introduced by British Library curator Greg Buzwell.
Автор: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Название: Aurora floyd ISBN: 0199555168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199555161 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1899.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate, sometimes violent, Aurora does succeed in enjoying them, her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code, and particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering, angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edward's introduction evaluates the novel's leading place among bigamy-novels' and Braddon's treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities between the author and her heroine. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum 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, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Автор: Braddon Mary Elizabeth Название: Lady Audley`s Secret ISBN: 154709009X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781547090099 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"The most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels," according to the famous literary critic John Sutherland.
Wealthy estate owner sir Michael Audley willingly marries a gold-digger, his only daughter Alicia's governess Lucy n e Gray. Sir Michael's dashing, in-living orphaned nephew Robert 'Bob' returns from an Australia gold rush adventure with his new best friend George Talboys, a young father who finds his wife died in their absence. Robert is instantly attracted to Lucy, who buries her past with George by leaving him drowning in a well. Maid Phoebe's boyfriend finds out Lucy's secret and blackmails her. Later Robert comes on the trace of the truth, while accepting to marry Alicia as Michael seems infertile. But after Robert tells Michael, the consequences and the extent of deception exceed their imagination.
