PEL : Lady Audley's Secret

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.