Aurora Floyd - Couverture souple

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3849692779 ISBN 13 : 9783849692773

Editeur : Jazzybee Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

This is the complete edition including all three volumes. 'Aurora Floyd' is a highly sensational story, full of clever, sprightly, and powerful writing, although calculated to make us believe that modern society is sadly in need of moral improvement. Miss Braddon writes with great fluency and case, and appears to have a natural aptitude for plotting. In abandoning the stage and music - teaching for this department of literature, we do not think she has mistaken her vocation. The first chapter of 'Aurora Floyd' is a story in itself. It tells the history of Mr. Archibald Floyd who came from 'the land o' cakes,' and worked his way up in the world till he became the senior partner of the great banking firm of Floyd, Floyd and Floyd, Lombard Street. It pictures him at his country residence, a bachelor past the prime of life, desolate and wealthy. 'It follows him to the theatre of Lancashiretown, where he falls in love with an actress — Miss Eliza Prodder by name — and marries her immediately; her theatrical acquaintances assuring her, in language more sincere than elegant, that she would be a great fool to refuse an old fellow like him, with lots of money — for they had acquired an idea of his wealth by his treating them in an adjoining tavern. There is nothing very attractive about her but her bright, black eyes; she is a mystery to the ladies who meet her at her new home, and they speak evil and are jealous of her; she is amazed at the grandeur of her new position; but earthly glory is short - lived, she dies, leaving behind a helpless babe and an inconsolable husband ...

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À propos de l?auteur

MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1837—1915), novelist, the youngest daughter of Henry Braddon, solicitor and author of several works on sporting subjects. Mary Braddon received a good private education and when very young showed an eagerness to write. About 1856, when she was living near Beverley in Yorkshire, a local printer offered her ten pounds for a serial story that should combine ‘ the humour of Dickens with the dramatic quality of G. W. M. Reynolds ’. The girl of nineteen produced a lurid story, Three Times Dead, or The Secret of the Heath, which was prepared for publication in penny numbers illustrated with violent woodcuts. But the printer went bankrupt and, although the whole story was set up in type, it is doubtful whether publication was ever completed. Later on the story was re-written, entitled The Trail of the Serpent, and in 1861 re-issued. In 1861 Mary Braddon published Garibaldi, and Other Poems, and a short novel, The Lady Lisle. A book of stories appeared in 1862, and in the same year, in response to an eleventh hour request from John Maxwell, a publisher who was preparing to launch a periodical named Robin Goodfellow, she wrote Lady Audley‘s Secret. Robin Goodfellow, after struggling through twelve numbers, died. Lady Audley was at the last moment transferred to The Sizpenny Magazine, where it attracted the attention of Lionel Brough, then acting as literary adviser to the speculative publishing firm of Tinsley Brothers. Late in 1862 it appeared as a three-volume novel and had a success both immediate and irresistible. From 1862 to the present day Lady Audley’s Secret has not ceased to sell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jazzybee Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3849692779
• ISBN 13: 9783849692773
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 394
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible