Lady Audley´s Secret / Mary Elizabeth Braddon ; introduction and notes by Esther Saxey
By: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth [autor]
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Contributor(s): Saxey, Esther [Escritor de introducción].
Series: Wordsworth Classics.London : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2007Edition: First edition.Description: 362 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 9781853267260.Subject(s): English novel -- XIX century | Novela inglesa -- Siglo XIX | English literature -- XIX century | Literatura inglesa -- Siglo XIX | Inglaterra -- NovelaDDC classification: 823.91 / Summary: the flaxen-haired beauty of the chidlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon´s classic nobel of sensation uncovers the truth its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder.
It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investgates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley´s Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers.
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the flaxen-haired beauty of the chidlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon´s classic nobel of sensation uncovers the truth its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder.
It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investgates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley´s Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers.
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