by Mary Elizabeth Braddon · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853267260
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«Lady Audley's Secret» is the Victorian mystery novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, in paperback from Wordsworth Editions (400 pages, in English).
The beautiful and seemingly innocent Lady Audley hides a secret that Robert Audley, an aristocrat turned detective, is determined to uncover. A Victorian suspense novel combining detective investigation, psychological thriller and social drama in a plot of bigamy, arson and murder, examining femininity and the boundary between sanity and madness.
Originally published in 1862, within Victorian sensation fiction. This revised 1997 edition belongs to the Wordsworth Classics collection.
For readers of Victorian classics and mystery, with a psychological suspense plot set in nineteenth-century England.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 novel Lady Audley's Secret, which is considered one of the foundational examples of sensation fiction. She is known for her focus on bigamous relationships in her novels, as well as her illegitimate marriage to John Maxwell.
