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Excerpt:
Faint streaks of crimson glimmer here and there amid the rich darkness of the Kentish woods. Autumn's red finger has been lightly laid upon the foliage--sparingly, as the artist puts the brighter tints into his picture; but the grandeur of an August sunset blazes upon the peaceful landscape, and lights all into glory.
The encircling woods and wide lawn-like meadows, the still ponds of limpid water, the trim hedges, and the smooth winding roads; undulating hill-tops, melting into the purple distance; laboring-men's cottages, gleaming white from the surrounding foliage; solitary roadside inns with brown thatched roofs and moss-grown stacks of lop-sided chimneys; noble mansions hiding behind ancestral oaks; tiny Gothic edifices; Swiss and rustic lodges; pillared gates surmounted by escutcheons hewn in stone, and festooned with green wreaths of clustering ivy; village churches and prim school-houses--every object in the fair English prospect is steeped in a luminous haze, as the twilight shadows steal slowly upward from the dim recesses of shady woodland and winding lane, and every outline of the landscape darkens against the deepening crimson of the sky.
- Sales Rank: #999506 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-01-08
- Released on: 2012-01-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” ― Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth
“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” ― Times Literary Supplement
From the Publisher
The Broadview Literary Texts series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, though lesser-known literature.
From the Back Cover
Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’―a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”
The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditions divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.
Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Gothic Tale
By Frances M. Norris
Having devoured Trollope, Willkie Collins, I happened onto Aurora Floyd and was truly surprised to find such an outstanding story so beautifully written. A dark secret revealed, a murder and a love story, this is a wonderful book.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
One of the Absobing Books Victorains Enjoyed Back in 1860s
By T.NAKAJIMA
"Aurora Floyd" may not be the best novel Mary Elizabeth Braddon wrote -- the honor goes to "Lady Audley's Secret" -- but, the book is still intriguing because of the contrast it makes with the other book and many other contemporary novels, especially "Jane Eyre." And if you don't have these historical interest, the book is pretty interesting thanks to its good storytelling.
[The following paragraph about the story includes mild spoilers.]
"Aurora Floyd" follows the history of the heroine of the same name, who has a shady past left in France. Aurora, unrestrained morally in her youth, hides some secret, but still attractive enough to make the two heroes fall in love with her. Without telling the nature of the secret, Aurora, strong-willed and candid, gives a clear warning to one of them, proud Talbot Bulstrode, that he may one day regret his rash action if he dares to marry her. While he vanishes from her to marry other woman, tame and tender-hearted Lucy, the other suitor meek John Mellish succeeds in winning her heart, and he immediately marries her, not knowing her secret. As the time goes on, however, her hidden secret emerges from the past, and finally catches up with Aurora, living now quietly in a countryside. She must face the past, but how? While she is tormented by the sense of guilt, her husband began to suspect something wicked is going on.
The story is melodramatic, but it is the merit of sensation novels, the genre in vogue during the 1860s, and Braddon, as she showed in her previous (actually written almost at the same time) "Lady Audley's Secret," is very good at handling the subject. It is notable, however, that the author intends to do something different this time, spending more pages on the analysis of the psychology of the characters. The result is a mixed bag; sometimes she shows good descriptions of characters with a witty touch, which reminds us of Thackeray, the story sometimes gets slower because of too much philosophy. Compared with the fast-paced "Lady Audley's Secret," her new experiment may look somewhat damaging.
But as a whole, the book is agreeable, and after you finish two-thirds of the book, Braddon makes the plot speedier. The last part includes one of the earliest examples of detective story, and a good (but short) portrayal of detective Joseph Grimstone's work is still fascinating. But the greatest merit of the book is its sub-text dealing with incredibly violent passion of Aurora, whose image is clearly mocking the typical angelic image of Victorian women. One of the book's scenes, in which the heroine gives a shower of blows with her whip to her stable-man who bullied her dog, caused sensation and scandalized some critics. The description is still impressive today.
In conclusion, "Aurora Floyd" is a fairly gripping story, even though it is not the best place to start reading her books or Victorian novels. If you think you are familiar with those Victorian novels, or want to read one of the effect following the impact of Bronte's "Jane Eyre," try it.
Trivia: Braddon lived long (died in 1915), and before her death, she even watched the filmed version of her own "Aurora Floyd." Her life story is as intriguing as a story she wrote.
[NOTE ON THE TEXT] Oxford University Press's "Aurora Flyod" uses the later edition of the book while Broadview Press's uses an earlier edition. The former one is considerable changed from the latter, so for the academic use you must be careful.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
KRILL & WAXKEEP editions provide the WRONG BOOK
By Librarian
[UPDATED DEC. 17, 2015] The Waxkeep & Krill editions published in 2015 are NOT Mary Elizabeth Braddon's AURORA FLOYD as advertised. This is NOT a revised or abridged version of her book. IT IS NOT HER BOOK! The text is, in fact, that of a novel by George Gibbs titled MADCAP. Download a sample of MADCAP from the Kindle Store and compare it to a sample of this Waxkeep or Krill edition, and you will see they are identical. Then download a sample of AURORA FLOYD from a publisher other than Waxkeep or Krill, and you will see how very different they are.
The first paragraph of the real AURORA FLOYD is this: "Faint streaks of crimson glimmer here and there amidst the rich darkness of the Kentish woods. Autumn's red finger has been lightly laid upon the foilage -- sparingly, as the artist puts the brighter tints into his picture: but the grandeur of an August sunset blazes upon the peaceful landscape, and lights all into glory." That's vastly different from the beginning of this incorrect version: "Tintine glanced at the parted curtains and empty bed, then at the clock, and yawned. It was not yet eight o'clock." That is how MADCAP begins, not AURORA FLOYD, but that is also how the defective Waxkeep and editions begin. Tintine is not a character in AURORA FLOYD.
Make certain any edition you are considering for purchase begins properly (as indicated above), and avoid both the Waxkeep and Krill editions. (I happily obtained my copies as freebies; otherwise, I'd be demanding refunds from Amazon -- as should YOU if you purchased either of these defective versions.)
NOTE: I wrote and updated this review in 2015. I don't know why it is dated 08/19/12, which is three years BEFORE either faulty edition's publication date. Maybe I'm clairvoyant.
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