Mary Elizabeth: 329 books

Capolavoro di Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Il segreto di Lady Audley uscì a puntate tra il 1861 e il 1862 sulle pagine delle riviste letterarie del tempo, riscuotendo uno straordinario successo di pubblico che la consacrò come nuova stella del sensation novel e rivale di Wilkie Collins. Al talento nel...

Settle in for the literary ride of your life with this thrill-a-minute sensation novel from beloved Victorian-era writer Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Teetering on the brink of poverty, widower John Marchmont decides to wed again. But what starts out as a fairly straightforward attempt to find a suitable wife soon devolves into a maelstrom of madness, tragedy, family drama, and romantic entanglements.

Ten-year-old Becca Shepherd doesn’t believe in Santa Claus any more and she certainly doesn’t believe she is special – at all! But everything Becca believes is flipped upside down when a madman called The Ice kidnaps Santa and she’s the only one who can save him.Soon she learns of her...

When Mary Elizabeth Robinson lost her mother, father, and brother, her life changed forever. To those not blessed with a faith-filled heart, the events might seem tragic and unimaginable. But Tomorrows Promise is a story of struggle turned to triumph. Marys faith in God revealed to her an amazing...

Sir Oswald Eversleigh, der kinderlose Nachkomme einer der ältesten Familien in Yorkshire und Besitzer von Raynham Castle, hat lange mit sich gerungen, ehe er seinen Lieblingsneffen Reginald enterbt, liebt er den jungen verwaisten Mann doch wie einen Sohn. Doch nachdem Reginald Eversleigh mit der...

Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Sweden’s involvement in Europe’s destructive Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). Focusing on the various roles women performed in the bloody and extended conflict, Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods of warfare and Swedish society were...

Tommy Tregennis By Mary Elizabeth Phillips

English author of Victorian "sensation" novels. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has been dramatised...

Aurora Floyd (1863) is a sensation novel written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It is a follow-up novel to Braddon's highly popular Lady Audley's Secret (1862). The plot follows the eponymous heroine, the daughter of a marriage between a nobleman, and an actress, as she grows into sexual maturity and...

The final days of 1949. The Dutch East Indies – the fabulous “emerald belt” – is slipping away from its colonial rulers. But the renegade Turk Westerling and his private army still threaten Indonesia’s hard-won independence. Maggie Featherstone-Smith accompanies her husband, a member of...

English author of Victorian "sensation" novels. Braddon was an extremely prolific writer, producing some 75 novels with very inventive plots. The most famous one is Lady Audley's Secret (1862), which won her recognition and fortune as well. The novel has been in print ever since, and has...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Run to Earth is a murder mystery that relentlessly ratchets up the suspense, leaving readers guessing until the very last page. Maritime trader Valentine Jernham finds himself at the center of a nefarious plot with ripples that fan out to touch dozens of people spanning all strata of society.

So hatte sich Francis Tredethlyn seine Karriere beim Militär eigentlich nicht vorgestellt: Statt sich in Indien Ruhm und Ehre zu erkämpfen, muß der junge Soldat Dienst in einer britischen Strafkolonie in Australien schieben, wo er als Kammerdiener und Reitknecht seines Vorgesetzten Harcourt Lowther...

George Pauncefort betritt nach fünfzehn Jahren, die er auf Reisen in Afrika verbracht hat, erstmals wieder englischen Boden und bezieht das in Sir Jasper Denisons Park gelegene kleine, einsame Jagdhaus, das allgemein nur die „Eremitage“ genannt wird. Dass das Haus seit einem Eifersuchtsdrama,...