Mary Elizabeth Braddon eBooks

eBooks di Mary Elizabeth Braddon editi da Bookrix

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) ha latitato a lungo nel limbo degli scrittori “di genere”, salvo essere riscoperta e riconosciuta dalla critica non solo per l’abilità di creare intrecci perfetti e sempre nuovi, ma per la profondità del suo messaggio in contrasto con le rigide costrizioni che regolavano la condizione femminile nella società del secondo Ottocento. Non è difficile intravedere nella biografia di questa scrittrice, che ricorse alla penna per mantenere la madre e la sorella dopo l’abbandono da parte del padre e che visse per molti anni more uxorio col suo editore John Maxwell, le tracce ineludibili che ricorrono in una produzione di più di ottanta tra romanzi e racconti. Tra questi, dopo Three Times Dead, il suo esordio narrativo, ricordiamo Aurora Floyd (1862-1863). Figura di spicco nel mercato letterario del tempo, la Braddon fu anche autrice teatrale e curò vari adattamenti da Dumas e Flaubert.
EBOOK   9783730987568

Mohawks: Volume 1 of 3. E-book. Formato EPUB Mary Elizabeth Braddon   -  Bookrix, 2014  - 

Mohawks is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It has 3 volumes. This volume has 12 chapters. example: CHAPTER I. "ONE THAT DOTH WEAR HIMSELF AWAY IN LONENESS.""Nothing?" asked the farmer, standing upon a heathery knoll, with his gun under his arm, and his two clever spaniels, Nell and Beauty, crouched dutifully at his feet."Nothing but this," answered the farmer's man, holding up a bundle of papers—pamphlets and manuscripts—dirty, crumpled, worn as if with much carrying to and fro over the face of the earth. They were tied up in a ragged old cotton handkerchief, and they had been carried in the breast-pocket of yonder wayfarer who lay stark and stiff, with his dead face staring up at the bright blue sky of early morning. A little child, a mere baby, lay asleep beside him, nestling against the arm that would never again shelter or defend her.

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EBOOK   9783730987575

Mohawks: Volume 2 of 3. E-book. Formato EPUB Mary Elizabeth Braddon   -  Bookrix, 2014  - 

Mohawks is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It has 3 volumes. This volume has 12 chapters. example: CHAPTER I. "IN OPPOSITION AGAINST FATE AND HELL.""Herrick," said Lavendale suddenly next day, when the two friends were alone together in the Abbey hall, a spacious chamber, half armoury, half picture-gallery, rich alike in the damascened steel of Damascus and Toledo and in the angular saints and virgins of the early Italian painters; "Herrick, you are making love to my heiress; you are cutting off my advance to El Dorado; you are playing the part of a traitor.""'Tis a true bill, Jack. I confess my crime, my treachery—what you will. I adore Irene Bosworth, for whom you care not a straw. I should love her as fondly were she a beggar-girl that I had found by the roadside—'tis for herself I love her, and for no meaner reason. I loved her before you ever saw her face."

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EBOOK   9783730987919

Mohawks: Volume 3 of 3. E-book. Formato EPUB Mary Elizabeth Braddon   -  Bookrix, 2014  - 

Mohawks is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It has 3 volumes. This volume has 12 chapters. example: CHAPTER I. "YOU CALLED ME, AND I CAME HOME TO YOUR HEART."Another revolution of the social wheel. Summer was over, and Twickenham, Richmond, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells were deserted for the new squares and narrow streets between Soho and Hyde Park Corner. The theatres in Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn were open every night, the opera-house in the Haymarket was crowded, and drums and assemblies, concerts and quadrille-parties, filled the very air with excitement. 'Twas said the young people were younger than they used to be, and all the old had grown young. The new reign began in a blaze of gaiety; King and Queen, flushed with the sense of power, delighted to occupy the first place after having so long held the second rank; conscious, too, of a handsome exchequer, and a clever minister who could change stones into gold; at peace with other nations, and with leisure to enjoy themselves.

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