Henry Dunbar, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Henry Dunbar, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Henry Dunbar
A Novel

Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 14 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/30/2025


Synopsis

Henry Dunbar is a Victorian sensation novel of crime, guilt, and retribution. After decades of exile following a youthful forgery scandal, Henry Dunbar prepares to return to the powerful banking family he once disgraced. His reappearance stirs buried secrets, old betrayals, and dangerous ambitions among those tied to his past. As truth and deception collide, Braddon explores moral consequence, identity, and the inescapable reach of past sins.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Issicratea on June 29, 2020

After labouring through Hilary Mantel’s 900-odd page The Mirror and the Light, I felt like something swift and ‘sensational’ as a palate cleanser. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Henry Dunbar (1865) delivered splendidly on both counts. This is the third novel by Braddon that I’ve read, and the one I have l......more

Goodreads review by Gwynplaine26th on March 17, 2021

La Braddon si ritiene l'equivalente femminile di Wilkie Collins in termini di sensational novel vittoriana, di cui già ho avuto modo anni fa di apprezzarne la penna con "Il segreto di Lady Audley". Avvincente e ben scritto, "Henry Dunbar" vibra come un giallo seppur di facile intuizione, ma ha la ver......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on January 29, 2021

Thirty-five years before the action of this novel, Henry Dunbar and his valet perpetrated forgery upon the banking firm of Henry's father in order to pay Henry's gambling debts. The crime is discovered but covered up and Henry is sent to India to serve in the firm's offices there. The valet, Joseph......more

Goodreads review by Patrizia on December 18, 2016

Ho sempre amato i gialli vittoriani, con le loro storie che si dipanano lentamente e i detective che (contrariamente a quanto succederà ai loro colleghi nei racconti 'polizieschi' di qualche decennio più tardi) il più delle volte risultano beffati dagli eventi. Mary Elizabeth Braddon dimostra ancora......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on March 10, 2020

Una lettura mozzafiato! Ho divorato fino all'ultima pagina questo thriller vittoriano che non dimostra affatto i suoi anni in quanto a suspance. Di solito nei romanzi di M.E.Braddon, anche nei più avvincenti, ho riscontrato la presenza di "tempi morti". Ebbene, qui non ce ne sono. È un meccanismo narr......more