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The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audleys Secret by Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despairIn this outlandish, outrageous triumph of scandal fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her? A huge success in the nineteenth century, the books an...

The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike 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 Victorian heroines.Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romanc...