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  Armadale
  

  by Wilkie Collins , John Sutherland

  ISBN 0140434119 (0-14-043411-9)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins' "Armadale" was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. 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'. John Sutherland's introduction illustrated how Wilkie Collins drew on scandalous newspaper headlines and on new technology particularly the penny post and the telegraph - to lend extra pace and veracity to his tale. This edition also contains notes, further reading and an appendix on stage dramatisations of "Armadale". Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846 he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the knowledge that was to give him much of the material for his writing. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens, who produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, "The Lighthouse" and "The Frozen Deep". Of his novels, Collins is best remembered for "The Woman in White" (1859), "No Name" (1862), "Armadale" (1866) and "The Moonstone" (1868). If you enjoyed "Armadale", you might like Collins' "No Name", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]

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  • Armadale: ISBN 0140434119 (0-14-043411-9)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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  The Law and the Lady
  

  by Wilkie Collins , David Skilton

  ISBN 0140436073 (0-14-043607-3)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife. Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband's name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite nineteenth century society. [via]

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  • The Law and the Lady: ISBN 0140436073 (0-14-043607-3)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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  The Moonstone
  

  by Wilkie Collins , Sandra Kemp

  ISBN 0140434089 (0-14-043408-9)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  A novel which reflects the underside of Victorian life. A tale of a stolen jewel, foreign menace and violent death. A telling social portrait. [via]

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  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0006128203 (0-00-612820-3)
    Softcover, Fontana
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0136006779 (0-13-600677-9)
    Softcover, Prentice Hall
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0140430148 (0-14-043014-8)
    Softcover, Penguin USA
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0140620133 (0-14-062013-3)
    Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0001845098 (0-00-184509-8)
    Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0001845225 (0-00-184522-5)
    Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0060108207 (0-06-010820-7)
    Hardcover, Harpercollins
  • The Moonstone: ISBN 0140434089 (0-14-043408-9)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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  No Name
  

  by Wilkie Collins , Mark Ford

  ISBN 014043397X (0-14-043397-X)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  A witty, intricately-plotted exploration of a sudden fall from grace, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Wilkie Collins' "No Name" is edited with an introduction and notes by Mark Ford. Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will, and when the girls are suddenly orphaned, their inheritance goes to their uncle. Now penniless, the conventional Norah takes up a position as a governess, but the defiant and tempestuous Magdalen cannot accept the loss of what is rightfully hers and decides to do whatever she can to win it back. With the help of cunning Captain Wragge, she concocts a scheme that involves disguise, deceit and astonishing self-transformation. In this compelling, labyrinthine story Wilkie Collins brilliantly demonstrates the gap between justice and the law, and in the subversive Magdalen he portrays one of the most exhilarating heroines of Victorian fiction. In his introduction Mark Ford examines themes of identity and illegitimacy within Victorian society and compares "No Name" to Collins' more 'sensational' fiction. This edition also includes notes and a bibliography. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846 he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he gained the knowledge that was to give him much of the material for his writing. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens, who produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, "The Lighthouse" and "The Frozen Deep". Of his novels, Collins is best remembered for "The Woman in White" (1859), "No Name" (1862), "Armadale" (1866) and "The Moonstone" (1868). If you enjoyed "No Name", you might like Anthony Trollope's "Can You Forgive Her?", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]

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  • No Name: ISBN 014043397X (0-14-043397-X)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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  The Woman in White
  

  by Wilkie Collins

  ISBN 009951124X (0-09-951124-X)
  Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd

  
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  Walter Hartright's chance midnight encounter with a mysterious woman in white is to change his life. When he takes up his duties as drawing teacher to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, he sees in her face an eerie reflection of the forlorn creature he met on the London road. What is the secret that connects the woman in white with Laura and her fiance, the sinister Sir Percival Glyde? And is Sir Percival's charming acquaintance Count Fosco, with his taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison, friend or foe? [via]

  More editions of The Woman in White:

  • The Woman in White: ISBN 014043934X (0-14-043934-X)
    Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • The Woman in White: ISBN 0003230775 (0-00-323077-5)
    Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • The Woman in White: ISBN 0140059806 (0-14-005980-6)
    Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
  • The Woman in White: ISBN 0140430962 (0-14-043096-2)
    Softcover, Penguin USA
  • The Woman in White: ISBN 0140437312 (0-14-043731-2)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA
  • The Woman in White: ISBN 0140620249 (0-14-062024-9)
    Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • The Woman in White: ISBN 009951124X (0-09-951124-X)
    Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd