Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…
The Doctor's Wife
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This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007
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A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Run to Earth
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A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love…
Aurora Floyd
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Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…
The Lovels of Arden
Read by Cate Barratt
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she…
John Marchmont's Legacy
Read by Cate Barratt
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…
Fenton's Quest
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This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …
The Golden Calf
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A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…
Vixen
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This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 006
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A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Eleanor's Victory
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Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…
Henry Dunbar
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In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committ…
Wyllard's Weird
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A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 023
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
Dead Men's Shoes
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Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…
Rough Justice
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Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were ther…
Birds of Prey
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The first part of the book builds the characters of four con men who become interconnected and attempt their schemes on each other. This boo…
Charlotte's Inheritance
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A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to stud…
Phantom Fortune, A Novel
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Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her…
Dead Love Has Chains
Read by Celine Major
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and…
The Fatal Three
Read by Celine Major
Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serv…
A Strange World
Read by Celine Major
A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian "sensational novel" serves up the perfect blend of murder,…
The Day Will Come
Read by Celine Major
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismis…
Mount Royal Vol. I
Read by Celine Major
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with the emphasis on romance. -summary by Celine Major
The Christmas Hirelings
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It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pa…
My First Book
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This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
All Along The River
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Isola Disney is very lonely. Her husband left her and traveled with his regiment to India. No one knows when he would return. Alone in a rem…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Beyond These Voices
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This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her gran…
Thou Art The Man
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Sibyl married after assuming that her cousin, with whom she was in love, died. However, said cousin, who suffers from epilepsy, found himsel…
One Life, One Love
Read by Celine Major
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…
Mount Royal Volume II
Read by Celine Major
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major
Mount Royal Volume III
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A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with emphasis on romance. - summary by Celine Major
Strangers And Pilgrims
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Strangers and Pilgrims follows the journey of Elizabeth Lutterell from a vain, beautiful and self-centred although good-hearted 19 year old …
One Thing Needful
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Can starving children be grateful for the education they receive if, when they ask for food, rich people give them a stone? This is the ques…
Taken at the Flood
Read by Celine Major
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…
Lost for Love
Read by Celine Major
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; me…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
Just As I Am
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The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …
Asphodel
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Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…
Sons of Fire
Read by Jim Locke
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…
The Lady's Mile
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If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel
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Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt…
Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret
Saturday-Night Theatre: Lady Audley's Secret Sat 12th Mar 1983, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Mary Elizabeth Braddon adapte…
Aurora Floyd Volume 2
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Aurora Floyd is the spoiled, impetuous, but kind hearted daughter of Archibald Floyd, a wealthy banker and his wife, an actress who died sho…
His Darling Sin
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Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved husband are the center of high society. Until Hector suddenly and unexpecte…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 073
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…
Short Poetry Collection 234
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This is a collection of 37 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2022.