Collins's longest novel, published in and dedicated to John Forster. The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, identity, murder and detection. Wilkie Collins ( - ) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. If the item details above aren’t accurate or complete, we want to know about it. Report incorrect product info. Show www.doorway.ru: $ Can a dream foretell the future? That is one of the central questions of Armadale, one of Wilkie Collins’ lesser-known novels. But even though it is not as famous as The Woman in White or The Moonstone, it is still written with the psychological awareness and piercing character studies of the best of Collins’ work.4/5(2).
Wilkie Collins' follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of evil, and the dark underbelly of Victorian England. The story concerns two distant cousins, both named Allan Armadale, and the impact of a family tragedy, which makes one of them a target of the murderous Lydia Gwilt, a vicious. Armadale. by. Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland (Editor) · Rating details · 6, ratings · reviews. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum. Armadale by Wilkie Collins. — 2 ratings — 0 reviews subjects: Classic Crime Fiction. Register for a free account. All our eBooks are FREE to download! sign in or create a new account. Download EPUB KB. Download Kindle 1 MB. $ Support epubBooks by making a small PayPal donation purchase.
ARMADALE By Wilkie Collins TO JOHN FORSTER. In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his “Life of Goldsmith;” and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the happiest years of my life. Can a dream foretell the future? That is one of the central questions of Armadale, one of Wilkie Collins’ lesser-known novels. But even though it is not as famous as The Woman in White or The Moonstone, it is still written with the psychological awareness and piercing character studies of the best of Collins’ work. Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in – It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the s: after The Woman in White (–60) and No Name (), and before The Moonstone ().
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