Wilkie Collins: Armadale | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780140434118 | Armadale | Wilkie Collins | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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Beschreibung

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 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 this most sensational of Victorian "sensation novels."

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Über den Autor

Wilkie (William) Collins (1824-89) was a hugely successful and popular crime, mystery and suspense writer. He wrote the first full-length detective novels in English and set a mould for the genre as shown in The Moonstone and "The Woman in White."

John Sutherland is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and wrote the introduction to Chekhov’s The Shooting Party for Penguin Classics.

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1995
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140434118
ISBN-10:	0140434119
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Collins, Wilkie
Redaktion:	Sutherland, John
Zusammengestellt:	Sutherland, John
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Maße:	199 x 128 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Wilkie Collins
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.1995
Gewicht:	0,519 kg

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