Armadale
ISBN:
9781441419170 (1441419179)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Gothic
This is a fine old melodrama. It's really much too long and complicated to be easily adapted to a play (although Collins did so, apparently, to protect his rights). But there is decidedly something of the Victorian theatre in the easily contrasted main male characters, the wild coincidences, the spe...
This is a rather long, somewhat confusing, but extremely engaging book. First of all, there's an Alan Armadale who is in the process of dying in a Swiss health resort. He's there with his mulatto wife and his young son, also named Alan Armadale. Before he dies, he writes a confession, which is to be...
No spoilers here. Just a reaction. It's been years since I read The Moonstone and The Woman in White. It seemed like time to revisit the other two Wilkie Collins books that are most often recommended: Armadale and No Name, so I'd added them to my Book Jar. Last Sunday, I pulled out the slip for...
A spoiler-ish rambling.Am I mad? Yes; all people who are as miserable as I am are mad. Before I started this book, I expected that Miss Lydia Gwilt (35) is going to be evil and manipulative as Shakespeare's Iago. And while she definitely lied, manipulated and was ready to commit a fraud and murder, ...
Not my favorite by Wilkie. Maybe I'll come back to it again later.
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