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Lady Audley's Secret de Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Lady Audley's Secret

Autor Mary Elizabeth Braddon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iul 2022

Ce se ascunde în spatele chipului angelic al tinerei Lucy Graham după ce devine stăpâna de la Audley Court? Descoperim în paginile acestui roman o premisă care a șocat societatea britanică a secolului al XIX-lea: o eroină a cărei ascensiune socială este construită pe un eșafodaj de taine întunecate și dispariții suspecte. Când George Talboys se evaporă fără urmă, nepotul soțului ei, Robert Audley, pornește o investigație de amator care transformă idila pastorală într-un labirint al decepției. Suntem de părere că forța narativă rezidă în modul în care Mary Elizabeth Braddon deconstruiește idealul „îngerului casei”, oferind în schimb o protagonistă complexă, a cărei supraviețuire depinde de capacitatea de a manipula aparențele. Ritmul narativ și explorarea limitelor feminității amintesc de Aurora Floyd, dar structura din Lady Audley's Secret este mult mai strâns legată de mecanismele suspansului detectivistic incipient. Această ediție de la Wordsworth Classics nu oferă doar textul original, ci și o incursiune documentară prin intermediul apendicelor ce conțin recenzii de epocă și adaptări teatrale, permițându-ne să înțelegem de ce romanul a provocat dezbateri atât de aprinse. Față de proza sa scurtă din The Face in the Glass, unde mizează pe supranatural, aici Braddon ancorează teroarea în realitatea domestică și socială, demonstrând că cele mai mari primejdii pândesc adesea sub masca respectabilității victoriene.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788027342990
ISBN-10: 8027342996
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: e-artnow

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lectură celor pasionați de originile romanului polițist și de istoria literaturii victoriene. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care autorii epocii sfidau normele sociale prin genul „sensation novel”. Este o ocazie rară de a vedea cum o scriitoare a transformat melodrama într-o critică socială tăioasă, totul într-un format îmbogățit cu materiale critice și context istoric esențial.

Despre autor

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) a fost una dintre cele mai prolifice și populare romanciere ale erei victoriene, publicând peste optzeci de volume de-a lungul carierei. După o scurtă perioadă în care a lucrat ca actriță pentru a-și întreține familia, Braddon a dat lovitura cu Lady Audley's Secret în 1862, devenind figura centrală a ficțiunii de senzație. Deși criticată adesea de contemporanii conservatori pentru temele sale provocatoare, opera sa a rămas constant în atenția publicului, fiind adaptată frecvent pentru scenă și ecran, reflectând talentul său de a imbina critica socială cu suspansul comercial.

Descriere scurtă

Originally published in Robin Goodfellow magazine, Lady Audley's Secret is the essential work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and is considered a staple of sensation fiction. The story centers on a mysterious woman, whose dark past slowly comes to light. Lady Audley is a former governess who marries the wealthy widower, Sir Michael Audley. She thoroughly enjoys the life of privilege and status associated with her new husband. Although she appears beautiful and polished, Lady Audley is more than meets the eye. She has a dark secret that could jeopardize everything she's worked for. To maintain her façade, she plots and schemes to silence those who threaten her happiness. Lady Audley will stop at nothing to maintain her comfortable lifestyle, including murder. Lady Audley is driven by desperation and fear. Her outlandish behavior leads to an unpredictable narrative taking the reader on a journey full of twists and turns. A combination of melodrama, crime and romance, Lady Audley's Secret is an extreme commentary on Victorian gender and class. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Lady Audley's Secret is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Notă biografică

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915) was a popular English novelist of the Victorian era. Braddon was a prolific writer, producing more than 80 novels with inventive plots. The most famous is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and a fortune as a bestseller. Braddon founded Belgravia magazine in 1866, which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, along with essays on fashion, history, and science. Born in Soho, London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry because of his infidelities in 1840, when Mary was five. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he became Premier of Tasmania. Mary worked as an actress for three years, when she was befriended by Clara and Adelaide Biddle. They were only playing minor roles, but Braddon was able to support herself and her mother. Adelaide noted that Braddon's interest in acting waned as she took up writing novels. Mary met John Maxwell (1824-1895), a publisher of periodicals, in April 1861 and moved in with him in 1861. However, Maxwell was already married to Mary Ann Crowley, with whom he had five children. While Maxwell and Braddon were living as husband and wife, Crowley was living with her family. On 1864, Maxwell tried to legitimize their relationship by telling the newspapers that they were legally married; "however, Richard Brinsley Knowles wrote to these papers, informing them that his sister-in-law and true wife of Maxwell was still living, thereby exposing Braddon's 'wife' status as a façade." Mary acted as stepmother to his children until 1874, when Maxwell's wife died and they were able to get married at St. Bride's Church in Fleet Street. Braddon had six children by him: Gerald, Fanny, Francis, William, Winifred Rosalie, and Edward Herry Harrington.

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'it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court'When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael's nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find him, and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a tangled story of lies and deception, crime and intrigue, whose sensational twists turn the conventional picture of Victorian womanhood on its head. Can Robert's darkest suspicions really be true?Lady Audley's Secret was an immediate bestseller, and readers have enjoyed its thrilling plot ever since its first publication in 1862. This new edition explores Braddon's portrait of her scheming heroine in the context of the nineteenth-century sensation novel and the lively, often hostile debates it provoked. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.