Lady Audley's Secret & Aurora Floyd (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian Mystery NovelsBy Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Length38h 15m
About this audiobook
Collected together, Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd display Mary Elizabeth Braddon's mastery of the Victorian sensation novel, a mode that imported crime, secrecy, bigamy, madness, and social transgression into the supposedly safe domestic sphere. In Lady Audley's Secret, the angelic heroine becomes a figure of concealment and danger, while Aurora Floyd offers a bolder, more passionate woman whose past threatens aristocratic respectability. Braddon's prose is brisk, theatrical, and psychologically alert, transforming melodrama into a sharp investigation of gender, class, and the fragility of identity in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was one of the most successful and prolific popular novelists of her age. Her early experience as an actress, her dependence on literary labor, and her unconventional domestic life with publisher John Maxwell all informed her fascination with performance, reputation, and the precarious position of women. Writing for periodical publication, she understood suspense as both artistic method and commercial necessity. This volume is highly recommended to readers interested in Victorian fiction beyond the canonical realist tradition. It offers gripping plots, memorable heroines, and a revealing portrait of a culture haunted by the secrets it tried to suppress.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length38 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 6, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Daniel Deronda (Annotated)
13Aurora Floyd (pt. 2)
2Introduction
14Aurora Floyd (pt. 3)
3Historical Context
15Aurora Floyd (pt. 4)
4Synopsis (Selection)
16Aurora Floyd (pt. 5)
5Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 1)
17Aurora Floyd (pt. 6)
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6Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 2)
18Aurora Floyd (pt. 7)
7Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 3)
19Aurora Floyd (pt. 8)
8Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 4)
20Aurora Floyd (pt. 9)
9Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 5)
21Analysis
10Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 6)
22Reflection
11Lady Audley's Secret (pt. 7)
23Memorable Quotes
12Aurora Floyd (pt. 1)
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