CHEAP EDITION OF
CHEAP EDITION OF
MISS BRADDON’S NOVELS.
In Two-Shilling Volumes, Uniform.
ALWAYS IN PRINT.
Also in cloth, 2s. 6d.; and in vellum, 3s. 6d.
1. LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET.2. HENRY DUNBAR.3. ELEANOR’S VICTORY.4. AURORA FLOYD.5. JOHN MARCHMONT’S LEGACY.6. THE DOCTOR’S WIFE.7. ONLY A CLOD.8. SIR JASPER’S TENANT.9. TRAIL OF THE SERPENT.10. LADY’S MILE.11. LADY LISLE.12. CAPTAIN OF THE VULTURE.13. BIRDS OF PREY.14. CHARLOTTE’S INHERITANCE.15. RUPERT GODWIN.16. RUN TO EARTH.17. DEAD SEA FRUIT.18. RALPH THE BAILIFF.19. FENTON’S QUEST.20. LOVELS OF ARDEN.21. ROBERT AINSLEIGH.22. TO THE BITTER END.23. MILLY DARRELL.24. STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS.25. LUCIUS DAVOREN.26. TAKEN AT THE FLOOD.27. LOST FOR LOVE.28. A STRANGE WORLD.29. HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE.30. DEAD MEN’S SHOES.31. JOSHUA HAGGARD.32. WEAVERS AND WEFT.33. AN OPEN VERDICT.34. VIXEN.35. THE CLOVEN FOOT.36. THE STORY OF BARBARA.37. JUST AS I AM.38. ASPHODEL.39. MOUNT ROYAL.40. GOLDEN CALF.41. PHANTOM FORTUNE.42. FLOWER AND WEED.43. ISHMAEL.44. WYLLARD’S WEIRD.45. UNDER THE RED FLAG.46. ONE THING NEEDFUL.47. MOHAWKS.
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“No one can be dull who has a novel by Miss Braddon in hand. The most tiresome journey is beguiled, and the most wearisome illness is brightened, by any one of her books.”
Extract from a very eloquent and excellent Sermon preached by the Rev. W. Benham, B.D., on March 4th, 1883, at St. Stephen’s Church, South Kensington.
Extract from a very eloquent and excellent Sermon preached by the Rev. W. Benham, B.D., on March 4th, 1883, at St. Stephen’s Church, South Kensington.
“I have undertaken to speak freely concerning our social life and habits, and therefore I shall not shrink from speaking about two subjects not often mentioned within the walls of a church—I mean ‘sensational novels,’ as they are called, and the drama. great outcry is made against the former, which I am afraid is not very sincere, considering that those who make the outcry go on reading them. That the writers depict startling and sometimes horrible scenes no one will deny, but I am not aware that there is any more harm in that than in reading the last report of the ‘Dublin Police News.’ What lies at the foundation of such novels is the craving after reality as against false sentiment. Who is the worse for reading ‘Hamlet,’ or ‘Othello,’ or ‘Macbeth’? There are horrors enough in these. What young man should not be the better for admiring Ophelia or Desdemona? I know an aged living prelate, whose praise is widely spread in the Church for his contributions to sacred literature, and who is venerated by all who love him for his piety and saintliness, who declares that the writings of the chief of these novelists—I mean Miss Braddon—are among the best of the works of fiction. Judge for yourselves. I hold that her books arethe very contrastof the few French sensation novels that I have read, whose philosophy might be summed up in the scoffer’s words, ‘Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.’”
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