Aurora Floyd
10 best books like Aurora Floyd (Mary Elizabeth Braddon): The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Desperate Remedies, Zofloya, Sylvia's Lovers, Adam Bede, Scenes of Clerical Life, The Nether World, East Lynne, Two on a Tower, Phineas Redux
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140439269 |
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 0140435239 |
Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.
Blackmail,...
| Author | Charlotte Dacre |
| ISBN | 1551111462 |
'Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. The novel follows Victoria's progress...
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0140434224 |
A very powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia’s Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service. One of their victims is a whaling harpooner...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759018 |
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...
My only merit must lie in the faithfulness with which I represent to you the humble experience of an ordinary fellow-mortal.
When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in...
| Author | George Gissing |
| ISBN | 0192837672 |
The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers,...
| Author | Mrs. Henry Wood |
| ISBN | 0192804626 |
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution.
Ellen Wood played upon the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and...
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science...
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN | 0641563582 |
The more I read Anthony Trollope's stories the more I see the masterful genius of this author. Last year I started his Barestshire series and loved it, so that it seemed natural to read his next series, Palliser. Are these series connected? Yes, because certain characters come pay their visit to this...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1592244068 |
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent,...
