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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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Dead-Sea Fruit is a Victorian novel of ambition, identity, and disillusionment. After his mother’s death, gifted young Eustace Thorburn seeks the truth of his parentage and the wrongs done to her. His quest intersects with London society’s fragile reputations, where marriage, desire, and propriety collide. Moving between Belgian canals and English drawing rooms, Braddon exposes the emptiness beneath glittering success and the moral cost of betrayal, secrecy, and social ambition.

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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