Author of Audiobooks - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / General Fiction
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep it as it ought to be kept." says Sir...
Henry Dunbar - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Henry Dunbar - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the ethical quandaries of guilt and...
Mount Royal Volume II - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mount Royal Volume II - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major...
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary doctor gazes at the countryside,...
The Lovels of Arden - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Lovels of Arden - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first...
Mount Royal Vol. I - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mount Royal Vol. I - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with the emphasis on romance. -summary by Celine Major...
All Along The River - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
All Along The River - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Undefined
Isola Disney is very lonely. Her husband left her and traveled with his regiment to India. No one knows when he would return. Alone in a remote part of the country, she is an easy prey for the local nobleman. This realistic novel tells about choices...
Charlotte's Inheritance - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Charlotte's Inheritance - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial, arriving in Paris supposedly to...
One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames. When his son Cyril goes away to school their friend and neighbor Ambrose Arden who is a notable scholar...
Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Family Life
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's eye, and disposed to be kind. Of course there are things missing: she does not remember her mother who died...
Lost for Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lost for Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for her, and the gentle charm of her...
Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most interesting novels. Pregnant and...
Phantom Fortune, A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Phantom Fortune, A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she...
Beyond These Voices - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Beyond These Voices - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in the world. But everything has a...
Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were there any blood motives? Detective John Thorne would have to discover. Inspired by a true story, this novel is a...
John Marchmont's Legacy - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
John Marchmont's Legacy - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always "done her duty." However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in love with another woman, the malice...
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon...
Just As I Am - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Just As I Am - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate of the county that he murdered the popular Mr. Blake. He even told the magistrate the whole story. This book...
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and...
Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry elsewhere. You may think it is the old...
Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aurora Floyd - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is beautiful, clever and rich. Two men instantly fall in love with her. But when they discover that she have...
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the wife take it? - Summary by Stav...
Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all that she seems? (Summary by Stav...
Mount Royal Volume III - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mount Royal Volume III - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major...
The Fatal Three - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Fatal Three - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serves up some very fascinating characters. It also raises some very interesting questions regarding moral &...
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the main characters is a Sensation...
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Romance
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her uncle's money after his death....
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local prejudices, produce, trade, scandals,...
Run to Earth - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Run to Earth - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern)...
Thou Art The Man - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Thou Art The Man - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Sibyl married after assuming that her cousin, with whom she was in love, died. However, said cousin, who suffers from epilepsy, found himself near a murder scene and had no idea what happened. Fearing the worst, he ran away. Ten years later, Sibyl...
Birds of Prey - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Birds of Prey - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This book is the first of a two part story, the second part is the book Charlotte's Inheritance....
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Class. Victorian sensation books were often set in ordinary, familiar setting, undermining the perceived...
Strangers And Pilgrims - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Strangers And Pilgrims - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
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Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Detective Fiction
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt at Sir Allan Darnel’s life, after various misunderstandings and misdirections, reveals an estranged son and...
A Strange World - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A Strange World - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian "sensational novel" serves up the perfect blend of murder, greed, madness, secrets and romance. The characters interlace throughout, and are as always interesting and...
One Thing Needful - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One Thing Needful - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Can starving children be grateful for the education they receive if, when they ask for food, rich people give them a stone? This is the question in the heart of this rich psychological novel. Lady Lashmore is a typical lady of her time, ruling every...
The Lady's Mile - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Lady's Mile - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to be known in that circle. A novelist, a painter, and some aristocrats, willing to prove themselves to the...