Lady Audley's Secret
$27.68
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
23 October 1998
Summary
A disturbing, enthralling, Sensation novel.
Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley’s Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian ‘sensation’ fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley’s Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435849 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140435840 |
| Author: | Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Jenny Taylor, Russell Crofts |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 23 October 1998 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) began writing at the age of eight but it was not until she won an admirer as an actress that she could settle down to write serial fiction. She became a bestselling ‘sensation’ author and was read avidly by Tennyson, Dickens and Thackeray. She wrote over eighty novels.
Jenny Bourne Taylor studied at York and Warwick universities and is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. She has published widely.
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