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장르/형태: | Fiction |
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자료 유형: | 소설 |
문서 유형 | 도서 |
모든 저자 / 참여자: |
Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Lyn Pykett |
ISBN: | 9780199577033 019957703X |
OCLC 번호: | 798990988 |
설명: | XLI, 396 Seiten ; 20 cm. |
일련 제목: | Oxford world's classics |
책임: | by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Ed ; with an introd. and notes by Lyn Pykett. |
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An early and excellent detective novel
"Circumstantial evidence," continued the young man, as if he scarcely heard Lady Audley's interruption—"that...
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"Circumstantial evidence," continued the young man, as if he scarcely heard Lady Audley's interruption—"that wonderful fabric which is built out of straws collected at every point of the compass, and which is yet strong enough to hang a man.”
BOOK? . . . Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (pub. 1861)
WHAT KIND? . . . Novel
BE MORE SPECIFIC . . . “Sensation” fiction, early detective novel or mystery
ABOUT WHAT? . . . An unarguably beautiful young woman (with a “Secret”) who marries into a wealthy English family, one of whose members, an idle bachelor solicitor named Robert Audley, is roused into amateur sleuthing by his unflagging loyalty to a childhood friend in trouble. Not surprisingly, Robert cannot help his troubled friend without boldly piercing the Lady’s veil of secrecy.
SIGNIFICANCE? . . . Lady Audley’s Secret was a popular novel in the early days of the detective or mystery genre (what they referred to as sensation fiction). Wilkie Collins was a better known contemporary of Braddon, although Braddon’s books were very numerous and successful. One of her mentors was Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton (“It was a dark and stormy night.”).
SO SHOULD I READ IT OR WHAT? . . . Yes, in terms of pure enjoyment it ranks high on my recent reading list. It’s an excellent detective novel. It does not deal with social issues or deep themes, it’s just for entertainment. But, its style, construction and characterization are on a par with many well-respected Victorian authors who concerned themselves with weightier matters.
YOU GOT ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? . . . The one oddity about the book is its frequent disparagement of women: both by the narrator and the protagonist. Certainly these critical views of women were not the views of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. My hunch is that she incorporated this attitude into the novel either as a sort of private joke, or as a way of appeasing male readers and reviewers who, in those days, often harbored strong prejudices against women writers.
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유사 항목
제목:(12)
- Bigamy -- Fiction.
- Deception -- Fiction.
- Married women -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.
- Upper class -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
- Insanity -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
- Bigamy.
- Deception.
- Married women.
- England.
- England -- Fiction