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Aurora Floyd de Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Aurora Floyd: Yellowbacks

Autor Mary Elizabeth Braddon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 noi 2025
A newlywed with a deadly secret
Aurora Floyd’s the spoiled, only daughter of rich widower Archibald Floyd; the result of his scandalous marriage to a penurious actress. Aurora grows up a renowned beauty, known locally as ‘fast’ for her unladylike habits – hunting and riding horses – she however is undaunted and confident. But after her return from a French finishing-school, Aurora returns oddly changed, gaunt, worried as if harbouring some terrible secret. Time passes, Aurora’s engaged to be married but her past threatens to ruin her chance of happiness.
Braddon’s follow up to the immensely successful Lady Audley’s Secret is a once both a mystery and the moving coming-of-age story of a young woman carrying the burden of a past with bad decisions.
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ISBN-13: 9789357310710
ISBN-10: 9357310711
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 124 x 184 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Hachette India
Seria Yellowbacks

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

P. D. Edwards is Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also the editor of several Trollope titles in World's Classics.

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Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”
The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditions divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.
Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.