East Lynne

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  • A
  • married
  • aristocratic
  • woman
  • succumbs
  • to
  • desire
  • in
  • this
  • nineteenth-century
  • English
  • novel.Lady
  • Isabel
  • Vane
  • married
  • for
  • all
  • the
  • wrong
  • reasons—only
  • to
  • one
  • day
  • find
  • her
  • lawyer
  • husband
  • neglecting
  • her
  • for
  • another
  • woman.
  • Seething
  • with
  • jealousy,
  • she
  • leaves
  • behind
  • her
  • husband
  • and
  • their
  • child
  • for
  • the
  • flirtatious
  • Francis
  • Levison.
  • It’s
  • a
  • risk
  • she
  • takes
  • willingly,
  • but
  • it
  • comes
  • with
  • a
  • heavy
  • price
  • that
  • will
  • lead
  • her
  • to
  • the
  • depths
  • of
  • despair
  • and
  • a
  • quest
  • for
  • redemption.A
  • classic
  • page-turner
  • from
  • the
  • “sensation
  • novel”
  • trend
  • in
  • England,
  • East
  • Lynne
  • plays
  • upon
  • the
  • Victorian
  • fears
  • of
  • infidelity,
  • promiscuity,
  • and
  • divorce.
  • A
  • tale
  • of
  • disaster,
  • disguise,
  • and
  • adultery,
  • it
  • continues
  • to
  • surprise
  • readers today.
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