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Lady Audley's Secret

Mary Braddon

Lady Audley's Secret

Original publication
1862
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
909
Difficulty
★★☆
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Romance
Translated from
English

Book summary

Lucy Graham, an attractive young woman with a mysterious past, marries a wealthy man and settles into a comfortable life. But elements of her past resurface, raising the suspicions of Robert, a close acquaintance determined to uncover the truth. Tension builds around Lucy’s true identity and intentions. The story gradually reveals secrets and manipulations in a steadily growing atmosphere of suspense. The author crafts a gripping novel about appearances, deception, and the consequences of the past.

The plot

A wedding, a hidden ring, a disappearance. Lucy Graham, a poor young woman, looks after a doctor’s children. Sir Michael Audley, a rich and kind man, marries her.

The world of the book

An old manor in the railway age. The story takes place in the late 1850s, in the Essex countryside, east of London. Sir Michael’s manor is a former convent, with an avenue of lime trees beside a pond. The railway links…

The author

Born in London in 1835, she becomes an actress at 17. For eight years, she plays Shakespeare, comedies and melodramas all over England.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

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