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Armadale (Penguin Classics)

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An edition of Armadale (1866)

Armadale (Penguin Classics)

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"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 her reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Swilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, romantic rivalries, espionage, money--and murder. The character of Lydia Gwilt horrified contemporary critics, with one reviewer describing her as 'one of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction'. She remains among the most enigmatic and fascinating women in nineteenth-century literature and the dark heart of htis most sensational of Victorian 'sensation novels'."--Back cover.

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Penguin Classics
Language
English
Pages
752

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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
August 26, 2000, Phébus
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Armadale
2000, Ediciones B
Texto impreso in Spanish - 1a. ed. en esta colección.
Cover of: Armadale (Penguin Classics)
Armadale (Penguin Classics)
October 1, 1995, Penguin Classics
in English
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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 and Swedish - Reprint edition
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Armadale
1897, Chatto & Windus
in English - Library ed.
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Armadale: A novel
1874, Harper
in English

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First Sentence

"It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of WILDBAD."

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4494, PR4494 .A8 1995

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7354852M
ISBN 10
0140434119
ISBN 13
9780140434118
OCLC/WorldCat
32130977
LibraryThing
57661
Goodreads
777108

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL176085W

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."

Work Description

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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