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Dead-Sea Fruit Volume 2

Author
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Language
English
Length
160 pages
ISBN
9781836101604
Published
7 February 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Victorian fiction
  • ambition
  • identity
  • social reputation
  • hidden parentage
  • disillusionment
  • moral compromise
  • high society
  • revenge
  • personal awakening

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Eustace Thorburn serves scholar Theodore de Bergerac near Helen, while Harold Jerningham watches Greenlands and editor Laurence Desmond aids struggling actress Lucy Alford. Braddon's second volume of cross-class desire, theatre ambition, and brittle marriage. Secrets tighten as youth's hope brushes jaded wealth.

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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