East Lynne

When the beautiful but impulsive Lady Isabel Carlisle marries the kind solicitor Archibald Carlyle, she believes she has found happiness. Yet a web of jealousy, misunderstanding, and a charismatic villain—the rakish Sir Francis Levison—slowly unravels her world. Betrayed by those she trusts, Isabel makes a fateful choice that costs her everything: her home, her children, and her reputation. Years later, disfigured and destitute, she returns to East Lynne under an assumed identity as the mysterious governess Madame Vine, forced to watch her former husband marry another woman and to witness the slow decline of the child she adores. This faithful modern retelling retains all the heart-wrenching drama, moral tension, and vivid Victorian atmosphere of Wood's classic. Part of Timeless Classics.