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Dead-Sea Fruit Volume 1

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
5 hours 17 minutes
ISBN
9781836100089
Published
3 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • ambition
  • identity
  • social reputation
  • hidden parentage
  • disillusionment
  • moral compromise
  • high society
  • revenge
  • personal awakening

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After his mother's death, Eustace Thorburn hunts the truth of his parentage and the wrongs done to her, through London reputations and Belgian canals. Braddon's opening volume of identity, ambition, and bitter success. Spoken as when glittering rooms hide how empty the prize already tastes.

Author

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for her Victorian sensation fiction. Rising from modest beginnings, she gained fame with Lady Audley’s Secret, which cemented her reputation for blending mystery, psychology, and social critique. Prolific and influential, Braddon wrote more than 80 novels and helped shape popular Victorian literature.

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