The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon’Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair’In 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 book’s anti-heroine — with her good looks and hidden past — embodied perfectly the concerns of the Victorian age with morality and madness.The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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