Author: Black band
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
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Category : Secret societies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551113579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies “sensation fiction” in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the “marriage market” and rebels against them. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews.

Author: William Conant Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Author: Black Band
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019973707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This gripping novel follows a group of men who band together to right wrongs and solve crimes in 19th century London. Led by the mysterious figure known only as the Black Band, this group of vigilantes takes on corrupt officials, murderous criminals, and other evildoers. Filled with action, suspense, and colorful characters, this book is a must-read for fans of Victorian-era novels and mysteries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Elizabeth Chandler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442406283
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent. Alone in an unfamiliar town, Anna struggles to pick up the pieces and establish any sense of normalcy. She desperately wants to trust Zack, the cute boy next door, but even he might know more about the incident than he is letting on. But when Anna starts feeling an inexplicable pull to the site of her uncle’s murder, she begins to believe that her family’s supernatural gifts are real after all. Torn between loyalty and suspicion, Anna is certain of only one thing: she must discover who killed her uncle or she could be next….

Author: Anne-Marie Beller
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786436670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career. Her bestselling Lady Audley's Secret secured her reputation as a leading "sensation novelist." Though critics called her work immoral, Braddon's novels influenced the detective fiction of the late Victorian period. With entries on all her published writing, characters, relationships and influences, and themes and contexts, as well as numerous illustrations, a career chronology, and a chronological and alphabetical listing of all of her works, this companion to Braddon's mystery fiction is the definitive reference on this provocative but overlooked writer.

Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902580005
Category : Secret societies
Languages : en
Pages : 611

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Author: Nicholas Rance
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349119644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Sensation fiction dominated the literary market in the 1860s. This book focuses on the roots of its emergence and demise, relating its rise to the crisis of faith in the ideology of self-help. Rance has also written "The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in 19th century England".