Mary Elizabeth Braddon

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the ethical quandaries of guilt and...

A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern) Author - Mary Elizabeth Braddon....

The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first...

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all that she seems?(Summary by Stav...

This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry elsewhere. You may think it is the old...

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she is...

Le jeune Richard Marwood est injustement accusé du meurtre de son oncle et se retrouve condamné à un enfermement à vie dans l'asile d'aliénés du comté. Au bout de huit ans, il s'échappe afin de retrouver les vrais coupables.Son chemin va croiser celui...

Mme Thevenok et ses deux filles décident de passer une annonce pour trouver un locataire afin d'aùémiorer leur quotidien. Le cpitaine répond à l'annonce et tombe amoureux de Barbara la fille ainée. Le père n'est pas favorable à cette union. Le...

Lady Lisle abandonne celui qu'elle aime pour un homme plus riche. À la mort de son mari, elle retrouve son ancien amant... Ainsi commence ce " thriller " où les liens qui se tissent entre les personnages semblent inextricables : les passions, les...

This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the main characters is a Sensation...

Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always "done her duty." However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in love with another woman, the malice...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who...

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is beautiful, clever and rich. Two men instantly fall in love with her. But when they discover that she have done...

A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Class. Victorian sensation books were often set in ordinary, familiar setting, undermining the perceived...

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary doctor gazes at the countryside, when...

The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This book is the first of a two part story, the second part is the book Charlotte's Inheritance. Author - Mary...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London on the 4th October 1835.At age 5 her parents separated but her ambition to succeed was not daunted. After being privately educated she took to acting, and the minor roles she obtained where enough to support...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon – A Short Story Collection – An IntroductionMary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London on the 4th October 1835.At age 5 her parents separated but her ambition to succeed was not daunted. After being privately educated she took to...

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the ethical quandaries of guilt and...

A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern) Author - Mary Elizabeth Braddon....

The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first...

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all that she seems?(Summary by Stav...

This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry elsewhere. You may think it is the old...

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she is...

Le jeune Richard Marwood est injustement accusé du meurtre de son oncle et se retrouve condamné à un enfermement à vie dans l'asile d'aliénés du comté. Au bout de huit ans, il s'échappe afin de retrouver les vrais coupables.Son chemin va croiser celui...

Mme Thevenok et ses deux filles décident de passer une annonce pour trouver un locataire afin d'aùémiorer leur quotidien. Le cpitaine répond à l'annonce et tombe amoureux de Barbara la fille ainée. Le père n'est pas favorable à cette union. Le...

Lady Lisle abandonne celui qu'elle aime pour un homme plus riche. À la mort de son mari, elle retrouve son ancien amant... Ainsi commence ce " thriller " où les liens qui se tissent entre les personnages semblent inextricables : les passions, les...