by Wilkie Collins
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.
bookshelves: published-1866, classic, victorian, autumn-2013, picaresque, gothic Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Wanda Read from July 28 to September 15, 2013 TO JOHN FORSTER. opening: It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad.The evening shadow...
TO JOHN FORSTER.opening: It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad.The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town, and the diligence was expected every minute. Before the door of the principal inn, waiting the arriva...
Not one of my favorite WC books, but def. up there. This book was gothic, mysterious and deep, just like some of the finest WC books. I did just learn something in the description of this book re: it being basically a failure for WC and his publishers. Shocking!
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