An edition of Armadale (1866)

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An edition of Armadale (1866)

Armadale

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The third of Wilkie Collins's four great novels of the 1860s, coming after The Woman in White and No Name and immediately before The Moonstone, Armadale is quintessentially a novel of its decade. It deals with the emergence of the autonomous, sexually active woman from the dichotomies of Madonna and Magdalen; with the legal tangles of the unsatisfactory marriage laws; with the perception of the growing role of scientific intrusion into the privacy of the individual psyche. Above all, it explores the divided self, and the need to acknowledge the darker side of the personality: a modern theme grafted on to a traditional melodrama, and worked out with all Collins's skill in handling a complex and exciting plot.

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Armadale
2008, Oxford University Press
in English
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Armadale
September 12, 2005, Echo Library
Paperback in English
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Armadale
2004, Fictionwise, Inc.
E-book in English
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Armadale
2000, Ediciones B
Texto impreso in Spanish - 1a. ed. en esta colección.
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Armadale
August 26, 2000, Phébus
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Armadale
1989, Oxford University Press, Dover Publication
in English
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Armadale
June 1977, Dover Pubns, Dover Publications [etc.], Constable
Paperback in English - Reprint edition
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Armadale
1897, Chatto & Windus
in English - Library ed.
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OL24285854M
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74E151FE-D4AE-4038-A4BC-407CF50C62AA

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First Sentence

"ON a warm May night, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the Reverend Decimus Brock-at that time a visitor to the Isle of Man-retired to his bedroom, at Castletown, with a serious personal responsibility in close pursuit of him, and with no distinct idea of the means by which he might relieve himself from the pressure of his present circumstances."

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Cuando el anciano Allan Armadale escribe su terrible confesión en el lecho de muerte, no puede ni imaginarse las repercusiones que tendrá esa carta cuando su hijo recién nacido la lea años después. Por segunda vez, dos hombres con el mismo nombre y el mismo apellido se verán implicados en la prosecución de una herencia que parece maldita. Mientras tanto, se suceden las sigilosas intrigas de Lydia Gwilt, un personaje misterioso y perverso que horrorizó a los lectores victorianos y que todavía hoy sobrecoge. Una mujer que llegó a ser definida por la crítica como "una de las villanas más curtidas". Con estos hilos y la complicidad del lector, el maestro Wilkie Collins teje una trama envolvente y seductora que brega entre identidades confusas, maldiciones heredadas, rivalidades amorosas, espionaje… y asesinatos.

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September 26, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'eBook' to 'E-book'; Removed author from Edition (author found in Work)
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June 22, 2010 Created by ImportBot Imported from marc_overdrive MARC record