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Title: Lady Audley's Secret (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, David Skilton ISBN: 0192835203 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94
Rating: 5
Summary: More of a guilt novel than I mystery I think...
Comment: ...I was suprised at how much I liked this book. I am not one for Victorian "sensationalists" preferring swashbuckling but Miss Braddon (as she was then called) is a great writer who gives explainations for her character's wild behavior. Considered quite a trashy novelist in her day, her stories are much tamer than what is on network television.
Read, enjoy this escapist novel
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful, rich characters and a page turning plot!
Comment: This novel tells the story of a beautiful woman whose secret becomes her undoing.
She uses her beauty, helplessness, and coquettish manner to achieve her end desires, but behind the innocent facade is a woman who is clever, manipulative and ruthless.
Lucy's secret and her extreme desire to keep it ruins the lives of the people around her (as most closely guarded secrets do).
I can't say anymore without giving the plot away.
The secret may be obvious, but the actual path to its discovery, its revelation, and aftermath shape the novel.
I could hardly put this book down and will certainly re-read it to see if I missed something the first time. A marvelous read - you will enjoy it if you like Victorian novels.
Rating: 2
Summary: An OK story, but lackluster characters
Comment: The cover description of this novel grabbed my interest when I saw it in the bookstore, so I decided to give it a try. It's the first book I have struggled with in a while. And it's not because it's hard to read; far from it. The characters are, simply put, not interesting. I didn't care for a single one of them, not even the "detective" of the story, Robert Audley, or the "enchanting" and "mysterious" heroine herself, Lady Audley. There was some good bits of suspense, and a few bits of mystery, but because of the flat characters this really did little to compensate.
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Title: Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) by Elisabeth Jay, Margaret Wilson Oliphant ISBN: 0140436308 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Doctor's Wife (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ISBN: 0192833014 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Camilla (Oxford World's Classics) by Fanny Burney, Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom ISBN: 019283908X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: No Name (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins, Virginia Blain ISBN: 019283388X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bonamy Dobree, Terry Castle ISBN: 0192825232 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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