No Name by Wilkie Collins

No Name by Wilkie Collins

Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. While the submissive Norah follows a path of duty and hardship as a governess, her high-spirited and rebellious younger sister has made other decisions. Determined to regain her rightful inheritance at any cost, Magdalen uses her unconventional beauty and dramatic talent in recklessly pursuing her revenge. Aided by the audacious swindler Captain Wragge, she braves a series of trials leading up to the climactic test: can she trade herself in marriage to the man she loathes? Written in the early 1860s, between The Woman in White and The Moonstone, No Name was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers.

Collins, William Wilkie: - William Wilkie Collins (8 janvier 1824 - 23 septembre 1889) est un ü¾Ž–”¼crivain britannique de l'ü¾Ž–”¼poque victorienne, contemporain et ami de Charles Dickens. Trü¾Ž†”¼s populaire de son vivant, il est l'auteur de 27 romans, plus de 50 nouvelles, au moins 15 piü¾Ž†”¼ces de thü¾Ž–”¼ü¾Œ¦”¼tre et plus de 100 essais.

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ISBN 13	9780199536733
ISBN 10	0199536732
Title	No Name
Author	Wilkie Collins
Series	Oxford World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2008-07-10
Number of pages	784
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