Aurora Floyd

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Aurora, the spoiled daughter of a banker, receives an offer to get married. But almost before the wedding, the groom finds out about some secret. Aurora cannot open it and the lovers part. But the girl did not suffer for long, after a few months she marries another of her fans. But the secret has not gone away. She hangs over a married couple, spoils the life of Aurora.

Birds of Prey

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Birds of Prey is the first part of the story of Charlotte and her family and friends. At first, the birds of prey are a little confusing, since each of the first few chapters is a separate vignette about one of the characters, without any visible links to the others. The main plot theme revolves around the hunt for the legitimate descendant of a wealthy man whose great legacy awaited the gift. And in this context, there are several more or less unscrupulous people who trace this genealogy.

Charlottes Inheritance

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The main theme of the plot revolves around hunting for the legitimate descendant of a rich man whose great legacy was expected to be bestowed. And in this context, there are several more or less unscrupulous people who trace this genealogy, some of which turn into the best people who are deeply immersed in betrayal and continue to remain evil until the very end. He seems so respectable on the surface, but his covert actions and manipulations with others were reprehensible.

Duchy zimowej nocy

Jerome K. Jerome, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood

Epoka wiktoriańska przynosi wysyp opowiadań o duchach, nawiedzonych miejscach czy demonach. Najprawdopodobniej jest to reakcja na nagły i szybki proces industrializacji, wpływający na osobiste i zawodowe życie wielu osób. Wpływ na to ma też rozwój przemysłu, błyskawicznie powiększające się populacje miast, a przede wszystkim jest to złoty wiek nauki i technologii. Opowiadania te są pisane, co ciekawe, głównie przez kobiety i wydawane albo pod męskimi pseudonimami, albo anonimowo. Tak jakby pisarki się ich wstydziły. Przełom przynosi publikacja Opowieści wigilijnej Karola Dickensa i zaproszenie przez niego znanych pisarzy do publikowania na łamach periodyku Household Worlds. Najwięksi autorzy zaczęli publikować opowieści o duchach pod swoim nazwiskiem i dali przykład mniej znanym.Christmas all the years round. Nastała złota era literatury grozy.

Eleanors Victory

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A wonderful life story, with secrets and romance, where the strongest human feelings and impulses win in a difficult moral struggle. The author has beautifully written the image of Elinor, first an impressionable teenager, and after a sensible, kind, loving girl. A lot of interesting, unexpected moments and turns, a secret investigation, secrets associated with the legacy of the old aristocrat and his will, which became an apple of discord between the characters of the book. An unexpected ending finishes the book perfectly. A very interesting, well-written work.

Fentons Quest

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Women are forced to marry and forced to marry for money, not love. As in all her books, the basis is a mystery, and, like everything I read, for the reader, the screaming is obvious what is actually happening. But this does not detract from the expectations of history. The characters are well drawn, each with a distinctive style.

Henry Dunbar. The Story of an Outcast

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Dunbar is the heir to a large English banking firm, but makes a serious mistake in his youth. His father and uncle expel him to India for his sins. Of course, everything is not so serious, since its isolation includes the leadership of their Indian branch. Then, after the death of his father, he returns to England. All this happens in the first few chapters!

John Marchmonts Legacy

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Edward, a handsome young soldier, considers Mary a charming child. John, the widow, is sick and poor, and asks Edward to keep an eye on Mary after his imminent death, whenever that happens. John stands in line, behind several other relatives, to inherit a huge mansion and income, and he warns Edward if he ever happens before his own death, beware of the evil relative who is next in line after himself because this person will do everything to snatch the inheritance from Mary.

Lady Audleys Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The heroes of this novel became victims of intrigue with the tuned arms of a golden-haired beauty who knew how good she wanted only luxury and honors. The reader after the first chapter understands what the heroine is hiding for the secret, although the villain will be more accurate, because throughout the novel she brings the rest only evil, the meaning of which they understand much later. The ball of intrigue that she had been spinning all this time would eventually be unraveled by the most inappropriate person who would not even think that such a shrewd mind was hidden in his head. No matter how complicated the riddle is, it will still be solved...

London Pride. Or, When the World Was Younger

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until forbidden love paves the way for despair. The author does not disappoint the Gothic romantic reader and the end, be he sad, but not all together are hopeless in the readers mind.

Milly Darrell

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Milly Darrell isnt the narrator, but the story is based around her. Mary Crofton is a new governess who meets her in school, and agrees to spend her vacation with Milly. She soon has to deal with the intrigues of Millys evil stepmother Augusta and possessive cousin Julian. Fortunately, Mary figures out that Milly is being poisoned thanks to noticing the wrong cork on a medicine bottle. Augustas no Lady Audley.

Mohawks

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Events unfold in England. Two friends who lived a wild life in their youth meet a rich but innocent heiress. Everyone plans to marry her, but for various reasons one for her wealth, another for true love. Who will win her hand?

Mount Royal

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This book is romance, mystery, murder, Christian and the best part of lost love. The main character listened to the often told story, kneeling in the firelight, at her aunts knee, a ruddy glow gently touched her light soft hair and a brighter forehead, her large blue eyes looked with love on Mrs. Tregonells face. And he was a widower, Aunt Diana, she repeated with an expression of disgust, as if something had clenched her teeth.

Phantom Fortune

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The plot of the book contrasts with the life of two ladies Hazelden, named Maria and Lesbia. Lady Mary Hazelden is much more meek and stereotypically feminine than other heroes of sensational novels such as Alicia Audley, Marian Halcomb and Magdalen Vanstone. She falls in love with a poor man named Mr. Hammond and is trying to learn how to work to compensate for her lower social status after she marries him. Her grandmother seems not to mind if she gets married because she has freckles and tanned skin, because the Victorian ideal of beauty probably resembles a vampire.

Run to Earth

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Two different riddles, three villains, one of which was really the darkest paint, three murders, one suicide, the abduction of a child, three strong Victorian women one of them is unusually tragic, the other is quite a deceiver, like Becky Sharp, and divine retribution. Suffice it to say that one of the main characters is a young woman who lives with a man who claims to be a father, but exploits and intimidates her, and when this villain, Black Milsom, actually kills the young navigator captain for money.

Stary zamek

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Czy można poluzować gorset konwenansów, który boleśnie krępuje całe pokolenia? Rodryk Vaudray ma przed sobą obiecujące perspektywy. W przyszłości zamierza handlem pomnażać rodzinny majątek, a tymczasem jutro wyjeżdża, by pobierać nauki na uniwersytecie w Oxfordzie. Oczko w głowie matki, która przelała na niego całą swoją ambicję. Na wieczór przed wyjazdem młodzieniec ma jednak inne plany niż kolacja z rodzicielką. Jedzie pożegnać figlarną Vixen, która - nie zważając na dobre obyczaje - zatrzymuje chłopaka do późnych godzin wieczornych... Lektura zachwyci miłośników nowoczesnej powieści w starodawnym kostiumie - w stylu George Sand. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915) - angielska pisarka, autorka ponad 60 książek, głównie śmiałych obyczajowo melodramatów z wątkami sensacyjnymi. Największą popularność przyniosła jej "Tajemnica pani Audley" - w ciągu 10 dni wyprzedano trzy nakłady tej powieści. Wychowywana i kształcona samodzielnie przez matkę, która odeszła od niewiernego męża. Sama poślubiła Johna Maxwella, z którym wcześniej przez wiele lat żyła w konkubinacie.