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.