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No Name by Wilkie Collins
I love Wilkie Collins’ humour, the quirkiness and mannerisms of his characters, and the intricate plots of his novels. No Name focuses on a rather unconventional heroine, Magdalen Vanstone, who in a short amount of time finds herself orphaned and β due to an idiotic a legality β penniless. Her rightful inheritance lands in the…
1840s, 1850s, 19TH CENTURY, 3rd pov, 4.5 STARS, Adult, adventure, British author, british classics, CLASSICS, drama, england, family, favourite authors, GOTHIC, HISTORICAL FICTION, HUMOR, LONDON, male authors, MYSTERY, No Name, published in 1862, read in 2018, sensation fiction, SISTERS, suffolk, VICTORIAN, WILKIE COLLINS, york -
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
“If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman β and I loved his wife so dearly!” A thoroughly entertaining novel that is intriguing from…
1840s, 1850s, 19TH CENTURY, 4.5 STARS, aristocracy, British author, CLASSICS, drama, england, epistolary, friendships, GENDER, GOTHIC, HISTORICAL FICTION, HUMOR, illness, Italy, male authors, MYSTERY, mystery puzzle, read in 2017, ROMANCE, sensation fiction, SISTERS, SUSPENSE, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, VICTORIAN, WILKIE COLLINS -
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
A surprisingly entertaining novel that brims with a polite sort of humor that is nevertheless appealing to the modern reader. Various characters give their account in regards of a missing diamond worn by Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. This yellow diamond, also known as ‘moonstone’, we are told has been stolen from India by…
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