Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Beyond These Voices

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...

Jim Locke and 6 more 14 hours 1 minute

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Thou Art The Man

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...

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance

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,...

Lynne T and 4 more 16 hours 9 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice

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...

Marina and 3 more 10 hours 31 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

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...

Lynne T 17 hours 19 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Men's Shoes

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...

Michele Eaton and 8 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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Family Life

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Eleanor's Victory

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...

Eleanor Howard 18 hours 9 minutes

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Literary Fiction

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Birds of Prey

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...

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Romance

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Phantom Fortune, A Novel

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...

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Christmas Hirelings

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...

Patti Cunningham and 2 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Henry Dunbar

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...

Victoria P and 11 more 15 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Run to Earth

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)

Gail Mattern 19 hours 29 minutes

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