About this title: With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of 'sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date published: 8/1/2003
ISBN-13:9781592241569ISBN:1592241565
Description: Good. 1592241565 Good softcover book; pages are clean with no marks detected; spine cocked, but binding firm; covers with minor creasing, but intact. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: London: Virago Press, 1984, 1st Printing
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780860685104ISBN:0860685101
Description: Alfred Elmore Cover Art. Very Good. ---------trade paperback, a solid Very Good copy, a bit of age toning to paper, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996-07-11
ISBN-13:9780192824028ISBN:0192824023
Description: Very Good. No writing inside except for price marked in pencil on first page. Pages are tanned from age. Tight binding. Cover shows minimal wear. Book looks barely used. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John W. Lovell Company, New York
Description: Poor. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Gray cloth boards, embossed colophon in black. Spine cover has browned with tips chipping, boards have light edgewear. Inside hinges are cracking. Title page, last page of text and bep are detatched and brittle. Pages have browned in margins. Text is unmarked. read more
Edition: Rev. ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ward Lock, London
Date published: n. d
Description: VG hardback in red cloth with gilt. Monastery library bookplate on front pastedown; some light foxing; spine bumped at head & foot. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780192824028ISBN:0192824023
Description: Good. Book is slightly dirty **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199555161ISBN:0199555168
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 196x129 mm. (512) with lady audley's secret, mary elizabeth braddon had established herself, alongside wilkie collins and mrs henry wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of `sensation novelists'. aurora floyd, following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. p.d. edwards's introduction evaluates the novel's leading place among `bigamy-novels' and braddon's treatment of the power struggle between the sexes, as well as considering the similarities ... read more
Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
Date published: 1863
ISBN-13:9781421212449ISBN:1421212447
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Bernhard Tauchnitz in Leipzig, 1863. This book is in English. This book contains 346 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
Date published: 1863
ISBN-13:9781421224862ISBN:1421224860
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Bernhard Tauchnitz in Leipzig, 1863. This book is in English. This book contains 330 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Syndicate Trading Co, NY
Date published: n. d
Description: VG hardback in dark brown cloth with black & gilt. Owner's name on ffep; pages browned; very small print; gilt panel on spine dulled. read more
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Edition: ILLUSTRATED ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DODO PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781409900559ISBN:140990055X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 504 pages. This book is printed on demand (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) illustrations edition illustrated ed (Paperback) read more
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