"My mum pestered me for years to read The Woman in White, until one day she just came in and dropped it on my bed. It turns out I couldn't put it down and now I always recommend it as a must-read to anyone who enjoys a classic or a psychological thriller. It takes a while to set the scene but once it's reeled you in the plot twists will keep you guessing, and it has a slow-building, spine-chilling tension I've yet to see rivalled in a modern thriller. Despite its classic style and language, the story of manipulation and power, and in particular the role of women, is still fresh and powerful today."– sallymh2
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women, the symbolic phallus. Bringing together historical, literary and sociological theory, this study recaptures the Victorians' broad sense of epistemological uncertainty about their rapidly changing society, reconstructs novelists' specific attempts to legitimate their traditionally low-status genre and offers fresh readings of novels by Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, William North, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charlotte Yonge, among others.
For those who don't know, today is World Book Day! Well actually, it's the first of two World Book Days this year. The other is on April 23rd, so make a note in your diary. Why two? Well, it doesn't really matter why. After all, EVERY day should be World Book Day!
There aren’t many books that completely changed my outlook on literature, but many that have are by Wilkie Collins. Find out which ones and read them!
Eletään Ranskan vallankumouksen aikoja. Rosa Trudaine on nuori nainen, joka päätyy naimisiin yläluokkaisen Charles Danvillen kanssa. Danville ei kuitenkaan ole lojaali, vaan ilmoittaa viranomaisille Rosan veljen erikoisesta käytöksestä vallankumouksen alla – ja saattaa näin sisarukset kuolemanvaaraan. "Sisar Rosa" on Wilkie Collinsin klassinen jännitysromaani, joka julkaistiin alun perin Charles Dickensin toimittamassa "Househould Words" -lehdessä vuonna 1855. Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) oli englantilainen kirjailija, joka vaikutti merkittävästi modernin rikoskirjallisuuden syntyyn. Collinsin kuuluisin teos "Valkopukuinen nainen" oli valtava myyntimenestys jo julkaisuvuonnaan 1859. Collins kirjoitti romaanien lisäksi myös novelleja ja näytelmiä. Hän oli läheinen ystävä Charles Dickensin kanssa.ProduktfaktaISBN: 9788726441819 Utgivningsdatum: 2020-05-18 Språk: Finska Författare: Wilkie Collins Förlag: Saga Egmont
In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions. Under Allan's instructions, the confession is left to be opened by his son once he comes of age. Nineteen years later, the son of the murdered man, also Allan Armadale, rescues a man of his own age—Ozias Midwinter. The stranger reveals himself to Reverend Decimus Brock, a friend of Allan through his late mother, as another Allan Armadale (the son of the man who committed the murder). Ozias tells Decimus of his desperate upbringing, having run away from his mother and stepfather (Mr. Neal). The Reverend promises not to disclose their relation to one another, and the young men become close companions. Ozias remains haunted by a fear that he will harm Allan as a result of their proximity, a fate warned of in his father's letter; this feeling intensifies when the pair spend a night on a shipwreck off the Isle of Man—as it turns out, the very ship on which the murder was committed. Also on the vessel, Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters; Ozias believes that the events are prophecy of the future.
There aren’t many books that completely changed my outlook on literature, but many that have are by Wilkie Collins. Find out which ones and read them!
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Born on 8 January 200 years ago, the Victorian writer is best known for his mystery novels The Woman in White and The Moonstone. But with more than 30 books to choose from, here are some good places to begin
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About Martin Chuzzlewit At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit– the novel Angus Wilson called “one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories”–is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author’s other works. Published in 1844 after Dickens returned from America, the action moves between Britain and United States in ways which highlight the failing of both societies.
Wilkie Collins's masterpiece, hailed as the greatest English detective novel, is a brilliant marriage of the sensational and the realistic, writes Robert McCrum
"Late one night, a drawing teacher meets a mysterious woman dressed in white. Who is she, and what is her connection to the teacher's new pupil, a beautiful heiress? Told from multiple perspectives, The Woman in White builds into a thrilling tale of mistaken identity, psychological drama, dark desires, and haunting Gothic horror." —from the publisherI had no idea where it was going. I flipped through the pages so rapidly they could have caught fire.—Stephanie MolnarA veritable forefather of the genre, it's unbelievable how modern this feels despite being published in 1860. The Woman in White is a masterpiece that everyone should read.—Satu, Finland
Excerpt: "My object in writing most of these papers—especially those collected under the general heads of 'Sketches of Character' and 'Social Grievances'—was to present what I had observed and what I had thought, in the lightest and the least pretentious form; to address the public (if I could) with something vi of the ease of letter writing, and something of the familiarity of friendly talk. The literary Pulpit appeared to me at that time—as it appears to me still—to be rather overcrowded with the Preachers of Lay Sermons. Views of life and society to set us thinking penitently in some cases, or doubting contemptuously in others, were, I thought, quite plentiful enough already. More freshness and novelty of appeal to the much-lectured and much-enduring reader, seemed to lie in views which might put us on easier terms with ourselves and with others; and which might encourage us to laugh good-humouredly over some of the lighter eccentricities of character, and some of the more palpable absurdities of custom—without any unfair perversion of truth, or any needless descent to the lower regions of vulgarity and caricature. With that idea, all the lighter contributions to these Miscellanies were originally written; and with that idea they are now again dismissed from my desk, to win what approval they may from new readers."
