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Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Lady Audley's Secret is, perhaps, the most famous of the Victorian 'sensation' novels. When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and to Sir Michael's nephew Robert, she is not all that she seems. When his good friend George Talboys suddenly disappears, Robert is determined to find…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers... she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers. The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life married to a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all…