© Vessela Lutskanova Publishing House, 2011
First serialized in Charles Dickens's weekly All the Year Round in 1871, The Rose and the Key is a classic of Gothic fiction. A beautiful young heroine, a cruel and unfeeling mother, a one-eyed spy, a mesmerist, a lunatic asylum: these are the ingredients for what is both a sensational novel and a mystery thriller. The terror builds slowly, as young Maud Vernon and her old cousin Maximilla enjoy a sketching tour through Wales. Ominously, they find themselves shadowed by a sinister one-eyed man. Back at Roydon Hall, Maud's home, things become worse. Her mother, the imperious Lady Vernon, seems to loathe her, and a mysterious will, an intimidating man clothed all in black, and the satanic mesmerist Doctor Antomarchi pose yet more problems. Just when Maud thinks she has escaped her hellish home, she finds that she may have entered one even worse!
Downey & Co. 1871
Translated into: Bulgarian
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