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Thou Art the Man (Valancourt Classics) (Paperback)

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Author), Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 372 pages
  • Publisher: Valancourt Books (15 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1934555371
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934555378
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 685,371 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ten years ago, a shocking murder cut short a blossoming romance between beautiful young heiress Sibyl Higginson and her cousin Brandon Mountford. When Mountford, an epileptic subject to seizures and memory loss, awakened near a bloody corpse, he was forced to escape to avoid execution for the crime. The years passed, nothing was heard of Mountford, and it was supposed he had either died or fled the country. A decade later, Sibyl, now Lady Penrith, is travelling along a desolate moor when a crazed man stops her carriage and hands her a scrawled note. Believing the note to be from Mountford, Sibyl sets out to investigate, and with the help of her niece Coralie Urquhart she will uncover the long-hidden truth behind the murder and the horrible fate of Brandon Mountford! Thou Art the Man (1894) is a thrilling and fast-paced novel of murder and mystery. It is also, as Laurence Talairach-Vielmas discusses in her introduction to this edition, a fascinating look at the ways Braddon adapted late-Victorian theories of heredity, disease, and criminology into her fiction.This edition reprints the unabridged text of the 1895 "yellowback" edition, complete with a facsimile of its cover, and includes a new introduction and explanatory notes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Victorian mystery that will keep you in suspense, 27 Mar 2009
By J. A. Peacock "adalard" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a late offering from the prolific Victorian sensation novelist, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and with most of her eighty plus novels under her belt, it shows a sure hand at story-telling. Contemporary critics of Braddon and her 'sensationalist' peers bemoaned the reliance on incident and shocking plot developments at the expense of characterisation and morally elevating sermonising, but Braddon at her best manages to combine the former elements with realistic portrayals of people responding and reacting to extremes of emotion and circumstance.

From the opening of the novel, with the mysterious note pressed into the hand of Lady Penrith by a lunatic vagrant, Braddon maintains the suspense at a level that will keep you turning the pages. As the novel progresses, Braddon makes use of flashbacks and contradictory double-entries from the diary of Lady Penrith's conflicted niece, Coralie, to piece together a compelling narrative. Despite the snobbery of the Victorian critics, the author provides us with some convincing characterisation, from that same niece, struggling with her divided loyalties, to the cold and loveless marriage of the Penriths; the requisite villain is a far cry from the moustache-twirling melodrama of Victorian fable.

Braddon was usually at the top of her game in following both literary and broader cultural developments; this topicality, as much as her skilled storytelling techniques and sometimes quite eloquent prose, earned her a devoted and receptive audience. Much of the plot development hinges on late-Victorian perceptions of insanity, heredity and epilepsy, as the fascinating introduction explains and puts into context.

This edition of `Thou Art The Man', first published in 1894, is an example of what smaller publishing companies, using lightning source printing methods, can achieve. And, contrary to some of the earlier print-on-demand titles that used this method, Valancourt Books has proved that there need be no compromise on quality. The book really is exemplary - there is a scholarly introduction, useful notes on the text and the cover reproduces to excellent and handsome effect a facsimile copy of the cover to the novel's 1895 `yellowback' edition. Definitely recommended to fans of Victorian mysteries and the casually curious alike!
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