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.

Tajemnica lady Audley

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Najsłynniejsza powieść sensacyjna epoki wiktoriańskiej Gdy piękna i młoda Lucy Graham przyjmuje oświadczyny sir Michaela Audleya, jej szczęście i przyszłość wydają się zabezpieczone. Lecz przeszłość lady Audley spowita jest tajemnicą i bratanka sir Michaela, Roberta, zaczynają dręczyć złe przeczucia. Pewnego dnia znika jego bliski przyjaciel, George Talboys. Robert postanawia go odnaleźć i jest gotów poruszyć ziemię, żeby poznać prawdę o jego losie. Poszukiwania ujawniają zagmatwaną historię oszustw, zbrodni i intryg. Czy podejrzenia Roberta okażą się prawdziwe? Bigamia, morderstwa, szaleństwa namiętności - Tajemnica lady Audley, wydawnicza sensacja swoich czasów, to ekscytująca powieść o zbrodni i nikczemności, która i dziś jest niezwykle atrakcyjna.

The Cloven Foot

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The novel has two stories that at first glance seem unconnected, but most readers will be able to find out the connection. The first is about the situation of artificial inheritance. John Treverton must marry Laura Malcolm within a year or lose his inheritance. In another story, French ballerina Zaire Chico lives an absent-minded life in Parisian and London theaters. In the end, the mystery of the murder happens, and the rest of the plot focuses on that.

The Doctors Wife

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Isabelle Sliford is a young girl who dreams of the books she reads and lives to read them. She sees life through the eyes of Brion, Shelley, Shakespeare and Dickens. George Gilbert, a handsome young doctor, sees that she and she are so different from the girls he knows, falling in love with her. He is pragmatic, and she is a dreamer of all that is beautiful, which causes the gulf between them.

The Golden Calf

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The plot tells the story of Ida Pallizer, the daughter of a poor Anglican pastor. Miss Pughs teacher and a wealthier student named Urania Pallizer often taunts and makes silly remarks about her poverty. The best line from this part of the book is when Ida is excluded. Miss Pugh says: You can stay here as long as you need to pack your bags. Not that it takes a long time.

The Infidel

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Antonia Thornton is raised to be a religious skeptic by her father, but has doubts after meeting with Oxford Methodists, such as Stobard. Lord Killrush is impressed by her beauty and intelligence and suggests making her his mistress. Dying from consumption, as people did in the old days, Killrush agrees to marry her. Provided that she marries no one.

The Lovels of Arden

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Antonia Thornton is raised to be a religious skeptic by her father, but has doubts after meeting with Oxford Methodists, such as Stobard. Lord Killrush is impressed by her beauty and intelligence and suggests making her his mistress. Dying from consumption, as people did in the old days, Killrush agrees to marry her. Provided that she marries no one.

Vixen

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Violet Tempest grows up in a happy home, the beloved only child of friendly and generous parents. She and her father spend days riding and hunting in the old forest that surrounds their house, and Violet is strong in heart and body, not smart, but very intelligent. The only possible flaw is that the mother of her best friend Rory, the ambitious lady Jane, does not approve of their close friendship.

Wyllards Weird

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Wyllards Weird is a little-known sensational novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The story mainly concerns the riddle of a young girl who dies as a result of a fall from a train in motion. Was it a murder? Or was it suicide? Amateur detective makes his mission to solve the mystery at the request of old love. The discoveries he makes lead him to a double murder committed ten years ago. Were they connected? If so, then the same murderous hand struck again.