The doctor's wife, a NOVEL By: the author of "Lady Audley's secret". / Mary Elizabeth Braddon /

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Book Overview

With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1546939490
• ISBN13: 9781546939498
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Isn't life like a novel in 3 volumes?

The Doctor's Wife is the 4th of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels which I have had the good fortune to read. There are 76 more, so, Oxford World's Classics, bring them on! In this, my favorite so far, the heroine reads novels and dreams of her life being like those heroines in her novels. She especially seems to have an affinity with Edith Dombey. Isabel marries a decent, honest, but not much of a dreamer type man. He is very sensible and loves her much, but doesn't satisfy her emotionally, while someone else does. Braddon's wonderful word paintings of the nature scenes, and her many literary allusions were what brought this book to be my favorite of hers so far. And I thought the story was also a little more interesting. I highly recommend this author to anyone who reads 19th century literature for FUN, which is why I do it.