Description
| Product ID: | 9780140435849 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Lady Audley's Secret |
| Authors: | Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley''s Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian ''sensation'' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley''s Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audley''s secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1998-04-30 |