MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Ultimate Collection: Mystery Novels, Victorian Romances & Supernatural Tales (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd, The Trail of the Serpent, Run to Earth…By Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Length513h 13m
About this audiobook
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Ultimate Collection gathers the many faces of one of Victorian fiction's most agile imaginations: sensation mystery, domestic romance, crime narrative, and supernatural tale. Across these works, Braddon combines intricate plotting, theatrical pacing, and a sharp eye for social hypocrisy, exposing the anxieties beneath respectable households, inheritances, marriages, and class ambition. Her prose moves between melodramatic intensity and precise psychological observation, placing her firmly within the sensation tradition while also anticipating detective fiction and gothic revivalism. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was among the most commercially successful and prolific writers of the nineteenth century, best known for Lady Audley's Secret. Her experience with the stage, journalism, serialization, and the literary marketplace shaped her instinct for suspense and public controversy. Writing in a culture fascinated by crime, female transgression, spiritualism, and unstable identity, Braddon transformed popular materials into searching studies of gender, power, and reputation. This collection is strongly recommended for readers interested in Victorian popular fiction at its most inventive. It offers both gripping entertainment and a rich archive of social critique, making it valuable to scholars, students, and general readers alike.
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
GenreLiterary Classics, Mystery and Thriller
Length513 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 6, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Ultimate Collection: Mystery Novels, Victorian Romances & Supernatural Tales (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Ultimate Collection: Mystery Novels, Victorian Romances & Supernatural Tales
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6Introduction
7My First Novel by M. E. Braddon
8Novels
9The Trail of the Serpent
10Book the First. A Respectable Young Man
11Chapter I. The Good Schoolmaster
12Chapter II. Good for Nothing
13Chapter III. The Usher Washes His Hands
14Chapter IV. Richard Marwood Lights His Pipe
15Chapter V. The Healing Waters
16Chapter VI. Two Coroner’s Inquests
17Chapter VII. The Dumb Detective a Philanthropist
18Chapter VIII. Seven Letters on the Dirty Alphabet
19Chapter IX. “Mad, Gentlemen of the Jury”
20Book the Second. A Clearance of All Scores
21Chapter I. Blind Peter
22Chapter II. Like and Unlike
23Chapter III. A Golden Secret
24Chapter IV. Jim Looks Over the Brink of the Terrible Gulf
25Chapter V. Midnight by the Slopperton Clocks
26Chapter VI. The Quiet Figure on the Heath
27Chapter VII. The Usher Resigns His Situation
28Book the Third. A Holy Institution
29Chapter I. The Value of an Opera-Glass
30Chapter II. Working in the Dark
31Chapter III. The Wrong Footstep
32Chapter IV. Ocular Demonstration
33Chapter V. The King of Spades
34Chapter VI. A Glass of Wine
35Chapter VII. The Last Act of Lucretia Borgia
36Chapter VIII. Bad Dreams and a Worse Waking
37Chapter IX. A Marriage in High Life
38Chapter X. Animal Magnetism
39Book the Fourth. Napoleon the Great
40Chapter I. The Boy from Slopperton
41Chapter II. Mr. Augustus Darley and Mr. Joseph Peters Go Out Fishing
42Chapter III. The Emperor Bids Adieu to Elba
43Chapter IV. Joy and Happiness for Everybody
44Chapter V. The Cherokees Take an Oath
45Chapter VI. Mr. Peters Relates How He Thought He had a Clue, and How He Lost It
46Book the Fifth. The Dumb Detective
47Chapter I. The Count De Marolles at Home
48Chapter II. Mr. Peters Sees a Ghost
49Chapter III. The Cherokees Mark Their Man
50Chapter IV. The Captain, the Chemist, and the Lascar
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