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Wyllard's Weird: A Novel
The narrative unfolds in a picturesque yet secluded Cornish landscape, capturing a moment of tragedy and mystery involving the death of a young woman who is either thrown from or jumps from a moving train.
"Wyllard's Weird: A Novel" by M. E. Braddon is a work of fiction. The narrative unfolds in a picturesque yet secluded Cornish landscape, capturing a moment of tragedy and mystery involving the death of a young woman who is either thrown from or jumps from a moving train.
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There are some travellers who think when they cross the Tamar, over that fairy bridge of Brunel's, hung aloft between the blue of the river and the blue of the sky, that they have left England behind them on the eastern shore—that they have entered a new country, almost a new world. This land of quiet woods and lonely valleys, and bold brown hills, barren, solitary—these wild commons and large moorlands of Cornwall seem to stand apart, as they did in the days gone by, when this province was verily a kingdom, complete in itself, and owning no sovereignty but its own.
It is a beautiful region which the traveller sees, perchance for the first time, as the train skims athwart the quaint little waterside village of Saltash, and pierces the rich depths of the woodland, various, enchanting. Now the line seems strung like a thread of iron in mid-air above a deep gorge, now winds sinuous as a snake through a labyrinth of hills. A picturesque bit of road, this between Plymouth and Bodmin Road, at all times; but, perhaps, loveliest in the still evening hour, when the summer sunset steeps the land in golden light, while the summer wind scarcely stirs the woods.
Contents
- 01In a Cornish Valley.
- 02After the Inquest.
- 03Joseph Distin.
- 04Bothwell Declines to Answer.
- 05People Will Talk.
- 06A Clerical Warning.
- 07A Rapid Conversion.
- 08A Valuable Ally.
- 09Fever Dreams.
- 10"Touch Lips and Part with Tears."
- 11A Fatal Love.
- 12End of Vol. I.
- 13Wyllard's Weird
- 14A Novel
- 15By
- 16M. E. Braddon
- 17The Author of
- 18"Lady Audley's Secret," "Vixen," "Ishmael," Etc.
- 19In Three Volumes
- 20Vol. II.
- 21Wyllard's Weird
- 22Léonie's Mission.
- 23A Student of Men and Women.
- 24Bothwell Begins to See His Way.
- 25The Home of the Past.
- 26A Face from the Grave.
- 27Struck Down.
- 28The General Receives a Summons.
- 29Widowed and Free.
- 30Two Women.
- 31Roses on a Grave.
- 32End of Vol. II.
- 33Wyllard's Weird
- 34A Novel
- 35By
- 36M. E. Braddon
- 37The Author of
- 38"Lady Audley's Secret," "Vixen," "Ishmael," Etc.
- 39In Three Volumes
- 40Vol. III.
- 41Wyllard's Weird
- 42Wedding Garments.
- 43Lady Valeria Fights Her Own Battle.
- 44An Elopement on New Lines.
- 45In the Land of Bohemia.
- 46Reaping the Whirlwind.
- 47How Such Things End.
- 48One Who Must Remember.
- 49The Last Link.
- 50Waiting for His Doom.
- 51"Alike Is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven."
- 52"Sweet Is Death for Evermore."
- 53"Who Knows Not Circe?"
- 54"How Like a Winter Hath Thy Absence Been."
- 55The End.
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 447 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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