With Lady Audleys Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself alongside Wilkie Collins & Mrs Henry Wood as one of the ruling triumvirate of sensation novelists. Aurora Floyd (1862-3) following hot on its heels achieved almost equal popularity & notoriety. Like Lady Audley Aurora is a beautiful young woman bigamously married & threatened with exposure by a blackmailer. But in Aurora Floyd & in many of the novels written in imitation of it bigamy is little more than a euphemism a device to enable the heroine & vicariously the reader to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions. Passionate sometimes violent Aurora does succeed in enjoying them her desires scarcely chastened by her disastrous first marriage. She represents a challenge to the mid-Victorian sexual code & particularly to the feminine ideal of simpering angelic young ladyhood. P. D. Edwards introduction evaluates the novels leading place among bigamy-novels & Braddons treatment of the power struggle between the sexes as well as considering the similarities between the author & her heroine. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

THE AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERIES: An omnibus edition of Roe Teagardens adventures! Aurora Teagarden loves reading about famous murderers
- until she finds herself investigating a real-life killing spree! The first four novels in the Aurora Teagarden mysteries series. Lawrenceton Georgia may be a growing suburb of Atlanta but its still a small town at heart. Librarian Aurora Teagarden
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- grew up there & she reckons she knows everything about her fellow townsfolk including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature. This is omnibus edition contains four novels: Real Murders (book 1); A Bone to Pick (book 2); Three Bedrooms One Corpse (book 3 ); The Julius House (book 4)


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In this compelling book highly acclaimed author & broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history
- part death camp part concentration camp where around a million Jews were killed. Auschwitz examines the mentality & motivations of the key Nazi decision makers & perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Fascinating & disturbing facts have been uncovered
- from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp. The book draws on intriguing new documentary material from recently opened Russian archives which will challenge many previously accepted arguments. This is the story of murder brutality courage escape & survival & a powerful account of how human tragedy of such immense scale could have happened.

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In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army & transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name now synonymous with mankinds darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour starved & savagely beaten Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting he sabotaged Nazi industrial work risked his life to alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners & aided a partisan group planning a mass break-out. This shocking story sheds new light on the operations at the camp exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS & presents the largely unknown story of military POWs held there. ...

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men women & children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease & starvation. Auschwitz Death Camp is a chilling pictorial record of this infamous establishment. Using some 250 photographs together with detailed captions & accompanying text it describes how Auschwitz evolved from a brutal labour camp at the beginning of the war into what was literally a factory of death. The images how people lived worked & died at Auschwitz. The book covers the men who conceived & constructed this killing machine & how the camp provided a vast labour pool for various industrial complexes erected in the vicinity. Auschwitz Death Camp is shocking proof of the magnitude of horror inflicted by the Nazis on innocent men women & children. Such evil should not be forgotten lest it re-appear. ...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944 they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew & a medical doctor Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous " Angel of Death": Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengeles personal research pathologist. Miraculously he survived to give this terrifying & sobering account of the terror of Auschwitz. This new Penguin " Modern Classics" edition contains an introduction by Richard Evans." ...

We're all feeling poor. Our wages mightn't have risen for a long time but taxes food heating clothes pets driving kids booze leaving the house
- & paying for the privilege of living there
- certainly have. Life costs more
- but that doesn't mean it has to become rubbish. No need for a hairshirt or holiday-less year: treats can stay on the agenda. This book contains so many money-saving ideas & tips that together they'll knock thousands off the cost of living. It's less shiver-me-timbers-I-can't-afford-the-heating more ten easy tips to slash your heating bill by a third. We're poor but we don't need to be bored or boring. This book lays out how to save it
- so you can squeeze more value out of your hard-earned cash.



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Australians pride themselves on being easy-going & informal. Their vocabulary with its colour humour & inventiveness reflects these qualities. This thoroughly entertaining Aussie Slang Dictionary will help you decipher & speak the true Aussie language. Full of dazzling definitions from true-blue Aussies youll never be lost for words with this collection of colourful sayings. From aerial ping-pong (Australian Rules Football) to on the wrong tram (to be following the wrong train of thought) & finishing up with some verbal diarrhoea (never-ending blather) your mind will be brimming with useful (and not so useful!) sayings for your next run-in with a true Aussie character. & for dinki-di Aussies living in the UK use this book to expand your vocabulary & increase your unique way of communicating. ...

A pictorial guide to the most colourful Australian slanguage & expressions. Learn what it means to be as busy as a blow fly at a barbecue or so poor youre licking paint off the fence. Or if a fellow man has mouse traps in his pockets or has only one oar in the water. Delve into this informative intriguing & hilarious collection of true Aussie-Strine sayings & appreciate their unique way of putting their spin on the English language. What distinguishes this Aussie slang dictionary from other publications are the 47 full-page full-colour photographs which demonstrate some of the sayings. Just imagine what the photograph looks like which illustrates youve landed with your bum in the butter! ...

Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women however Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own? In this addictive charming & compassionate story Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us. ...