Lady Audley's Secret (Version 2) - Free Audiobook

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Length: 41 chapters
Language: English
Genres: RomanceGeneral FictionCrime & Mystery FictionLiterary Fiction
Narrators:Mark Leder
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  • 1. Chapter One, "Lucy"
  • 2. Chapter Two, "On Board the Argus"
  • 3. Chapter Three, "Hidden Relics"
  • 4. Chapter Four, "In the First Page of 'the Times'"
  • 5. Chapter Five, "The Headstone at Ventnor"
  • 6. Chapter Six, "Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World"
  • 7. Chapter Seven, "After a Year"
  • 8. Chapter Eight, "Before the Storm"
  • 9. Chapter Nine, "After the Storm"
  • 10. Chapter Ten, "Missing"
  • 11. Chapter Eleven, "The Mark Upon My Lady's Wrist"
  • 12. Chapter Twelve, "Still Missing"
  • 13. Chapter Thirteen, "Troubled Dreams"
  • 14. Chapter Fourteen, "Phoebe's Suitor"
  • 15. Chapter Fifteen, "On the Watch"
  • 16. Chapter Sixteen, "Robert Audley Gets His Conge"
  • 17. Chapter Seventeen, "At the Castle Inn"
  • 18. Chapter Eighteen, "Robert Receives a Visitor Whom He Had Scarcely Expected"
  • 19. Chapter Nineteen, "The Writing in the Book"
  • 20. Chapter Twenty, "Mrs. Plowson"
  • 21. Chapter Twenty-one, "Little Georgey Leaves His Old Home"
  • 22. Chapter Twenty-two, "Coming to a Standstill"
  • 23. Chapter Twenty-three, "Clara"
  • 24. Chapter Twenty-four, "George's Letters"
  • 25. Chapter Twenty-five, "Retrograde Investigation"
  • 26. Chapter Twenty-six, "So Far and No Farther"
  • 27. Chapter Twenty-seven, "Beginning at the Other End"
  • 28. Chapter Twenty-eight, "Hidden in the Grave"
  • 29. Chapter Twenty-nine, "On the Lime-walk"
  • 30. Chapter Thirty, "Preparing the Ground"
  • 31. Chapter Thirty-one, "Phoebe's Petition"
  • 32. Chapter Thirty-two, "The Red Light in the Sky"
  • 33. Chapter Thirty-three, "The Bearer of the Tidings"
  • 34. Chapter Thirty-four, "My Lady Tells the Truth"
  • 35. Chapter Thirty-five, "The Hush That Succeeds the Tempest"
  • 36. Chapter Thirty-six, "Dr. Mosgrove's Advice"
  • 37. Chapter Thirty-seven, "Buried Alive"
  • 38. Chapter Thirty-eight, "Ghost Haunted"
  • 39. Chapter Thirty-nine, "That Which the Dying Man Had to Tell"
  • 40. Chapter Forty, "Restored"
  • 41. Chapter Forty-one, "At Peace"

Summary

Lady Audley's Secret is a novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, serialised in 1861–62 and published in three volumes in 1862. It became one of the best-selling books of the Victorian period and, with Wilkie Collins's work, defined the sensation novel.

The story begins when Sir Michael Audley, a widowed baronet in his fifties, marries Lucy Graham, a young governess admired by everyone in the Essex village where she works for her beauty, modesty and sweet temper. Meanwhile Sir Michael's nephew Robert Audley, an idle London barrister, runs into an old friend, George Talboys, who has just returned from the Australian goldfields with a fortune, hoping to reunite with the wife he left behind years before. Grief soon overtakes George, and Robert brings him to visit Audley Court, the family's old manor house. George then disappears without explanation. Robert, who has never taken anything seriously, finds himself unable to drop the question of what happened to his friend, and his inquiries lead him towards uncomfortable conclusions about people close to his family.

The novel is a fast-moving mystery that also questions Victorian ideals of femininity, marriage and respectability, as well as fears about madness and social class. It suits readers of Victorian fiction, domestic suspense and stories that look beneath a polished surface.

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It is June 1857, and young and beautiful Lucy Graham is about to marry Sir Michael Audley. But who exactly IS Lucy, that's what Sir Michael's nephew, Robert, wants to know. She was a governess to Mr. Dawson, true. And prior to that, she was in service with Mrs. Vincent. But who is she? - Summary by Mark Leder

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