Armadale Wilkie Collins Penguin Classics Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

An Innovative Novel Featuring Astonishingly Wicked Female Villain Wilkie Collins\ S Armadale Was Regarded By T Eliot As \ The Best Of [His] Romances\ This Penguin Classics Edition Is Edited With Introduction And Notes John Sutherland When Elderly Allan Makes A Terrible Confession On His Death-Bed He Has Little Idea Repercussions To Come For Secret Reveals Involves Mysterious Lydia Gwilt: Flame-Haired Temptress Bigamist Laudanum Addict Husband-Poisoner Her Malicious Intrigues Fuel Plot Gripping Melodrama: Tale Confused Identities Inherited Curses Romantic Rivalries Espionage Money - Murder Character Gwilt Horrified Contemporary Critics One Reviewer Describing Most Hardened Villains Whose Devices Desires Have Ever Blackened Fiction\ She Remains Among Enigmatic Fascinating Women In Nineteenth-Century Literature Dark Heart Sensational Victorian Sensation Novels\ Sutherland\ Illustrated How Collins Drew Scandalous Newspaper Headlines New Technology Particularly Penny Post Telegraph Lend Extra Pace Veracity Also Contains Further Reading Appendix Stage Dramatisations (1824-1889) Born London 1824 Eldest Son Landscape Painter William 1846 Entered Read Bar At Lincoln\ Inn Where Gained Knowledge That Give Him Much Material Writing From Early 1850S Friend Charles Dickens Who Produced Acted Two Melodramas Written Lighthouse Frozen Deep Novels Remembered Woman White (1859) No Name (1862) (1866) Moonstone (1868) If You Enjoyed Might Like Available Σελίδες: 752 Διαστάσεις: 13 2X13 2Cm