by Wilkie Collins, Virginia Blain
From wiki: No Name (1862) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. It was originally serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round before book publication.All the ingedients of a rollicking good mystery5* The Woman in White4* The Moonstone3*...
This is the first book of Wilkie Collins I have read and it won’t be the last. Don’t you just love it when you can say that about an author? Many people have highly recommended The Woman in White to me since but I decided to read this one first as it has been on my TBR for about 4 years.I actually r...
I have read conflicting reports at to whether or not this novel was originally serialized. My guess is that it was. Is is a v. long novel with a somewhat meandering pace. That said, this novel created some wonderful characters. Two sisters, upon learning that they were illegitimate and as such unabl...
Plot Summary (from Wikipedia): The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. The first scene is a wonderfully dramatic legal thriller. The reader is introduced to Mr Andrew Vanstone, Mrs Vanstone and their two daughters Norah, ...
One of Wilkie Collins’ talents is playing with the psyches of his readers. In No Name, this manifests through the question of who is the real villain in this story. Victorian readers would most likely have pointed the finger at Magdalen, yet ironically she’s our protagonist. From my readings of Vict...
Strangely, The Woman in White, is one of my favourite books from the period, so I was quite looking forward to No Name as a continuation of my Wilkie Collins exploration. The story concerns two sisters who are disinherited of their parents fortunes by circumstances too contrived to be believed and t...
Not one of my favorite Wilkie Collin's books. I am not sure why. I read this a long time ago and am thinking I may need to read it again. I tend to remember that I thought it was drier and moved more slowly than my favorites of his.
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