More tales of intrigue, horror and the world beyond Lovers of the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins know that to discover his female counterpart they need look no further than the works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. She was a prolific author of the kind of dark melodrama much loved by her contemporary audience and her most renowned work, Lady Audleys Secret, has been often dramatised, filmed and, indeed, has never been out of print from the time of its original publication. Never was the accolade, The Queen of Sensation so well deserved as it was by her. It is not unusual that a writer who produced so much materialand much of that with a flavour of the Gothicshould also turn her talents to the genre of supernatural and strange fiction, since there was much precedent for it among her literary peers and much appetite for it among the reading public. So it is, perhaps, unsurprising that this Leonaur collection of Mary Elizabeth Braddons forays into the other worldly and bizarre runs to four substantial, satisfying volumes. The entire, substantial novel, Gerard or The World, the Flesh and Deviloriginally published in two volumesis accompanied here by one of Braddons best short stories, and one that has appeared in many anthologies as an example of the finest stories of the genre, The Shadow in the Corner. Braddon further establishes the reputation of women writers of her period as being the mistresss of the supernatural tale in the other three stories included in this...

Binding: Hardcover;504 pages; Publisher: Oakpast; Classification: N/A; Weight: 893.37 g; Dimensions: N/A

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