Lady Audley's Secret
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court. As an amateur detective, Robert travels the length and breadth of the country, only to discover that the answer to the mystery lies in the true identity of his uncle's wife, Lady Audley. True to its genre, the novel brings danger home to the private sphere of the country house and questions the unassailable boundaries of class. It is also a strident feminine criticism of the times, though debate still rages as to whether Braddon tidies her questions away too neatly at the end of the novel.
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Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Pages
773
Publisher
The Floating Press
Published Date
2009-06-01
ISBN
1775415503 9781775415503
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"I’ll call this another hidden gem that I’m so happy to have stumbled upon. <br/><br/>It was a great mystery. It was once I understood how George (when on the ship home) and Audley Court came together — which granted was pretty early on, but at that point I didn’t know how long two “stories” would go on before merging — that I was really hooked. <br/><br/>Robert Audley was a really great character to follow and grow with as the story went on. The book also does a pretty good job of depicting his grief in a way both poetic and real. Plus I didn’t guess how it was going to end! I’m always impressed when that happens.<br/><br/>I wish our narrator was a little more developed by the end, but that’s pretty much my only complaint!"
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Kayla Randolph
"I really enjoyed it! It reminds me of pride and prejudice if you like that but with more of a suspenseful and mischievous twist to it. It started off kind of slow but then I couldn’t put it down! "
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Stephanie Cruz