Aurora Floyd

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Book Overview

With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety.

Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199555168
• ISBN13: 9780199555161
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Gripping read!

Beautiful Aurora is spoiled and petted but she carries a dreadful secret. As a young woman she impulsively marries her father's groom, leading him to pay the unsuitable suitor off.. But it will all come back to haunt her later, when she marries again. Among the most compelling "neglected" works of Victorian fiction.

A Great Gothic Tale

Having devoured Trollope, Willkie Collins, I happened onto Aurora Floyd and was truly surprised to find such an outstanding story so beautifully written. A dark secret revealed, a murder and a love story, this is a wonderful book.