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Aurora Floyd

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 1863

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Like Lady Audley, Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married and threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions.

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British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisVictorianVictorianMore like thisLess of thisgothic horrorgothic horrorMore like thisLess of this
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Audience
adult
Length
long · 474 pages

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