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Title: John Marchmont's Legacy (Oxford World's Classics) by M. E. Braddon, Norman Page, Toru Sasaki, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ISBN: 0-19-283321-9 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not her best effort but, not horrible either................
Comment: I will have to agree that this is NOT Braddon's best work. However, it is not as bad as some of the other reviewers make it out to be. The biggest fault is that the story is quite slow to get going. If the reader can hang on and make it through about a third of the story, they will be rewarded with what we normally expect in sensation fiction. I was also somewhat put off by the little synopsis on the back of the book. It is very misleading. There is a lot more to the plot than what that little blurb suggests.
If you are new to Braddon, I would suggest starting with some of her other titles such as The Trail of The Serpent or Aurora Floyd.
Rating: 3
Summary: a rather unsensational 'sensation' novel..
Comment: During the 1860s Wilkie Collins, with his terrific The Woman In White, started the period of 'sensation' novels. These novels are rather over-the-type, almost slapstick-like mystery stories. Mary Elizabeth Braddon followed with her own flavor of sensation novels. While I love many of Wilkie Collins novels I was disappointed with Braddon's most famous work, Lady Audley's Secret. But when I ran into a copy of John Marchmont's Legacy I thought I'd give Ms Braddon a try. Was I disappointed? Well...
Firstly, the story is a typical Victorian era melodrama: family members squabbling over an inheritance, with certain members stopping at nothing to become rich. Ms Braddon does do a good job on the characterizations, and the ultimate mystery does build up to a good conclusion. The book is nicely structured (..unlike Lady Audley's Secret, where we find the story basically ending 100 pages from the finish).
However Ms Braddon is simply not a very good writer. Her prose is weak, especially compared to Wilkie Collins. Every third sentence ends with an exclamation point, which must be Ms Braddon's way of indicating high drama (?).
Bottom line: a unremarkable slice of Victorian literary history. Certainly not terrible, but nonetheless a far cry from Wilkie Collins material.
Rating: 1
Summary: IMO It's Bad
Comment: I got here after getting to Collins, after going through Dickens. This is an awful book, in my humble opinion. Why has it been resurrected? (Rhetorical) If you love Dickens, maybe you found Collins, and if you love Collins, then you and I are relevantly similar, so let me tell you, don't bother with this insipid tripe, or with "Doctor's Wife" for that matter. Unless you are simply obligated, because you are a gendered wannabe English professor, in some forsaken place, poor you.
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Title: Aurora Floyd (World's Classics) by M. E. Braddon, P. D. Edwards, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Peter David Edwards ISBN: 0192824023 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France by Maria Perry ISBN: 0306809893 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Small House at Allington (Pengin Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Julian Thompson ISBN: 0140433252 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England by ANN WROE ISBN: 1400060338 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0140107479 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 31 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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