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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... Read Full Overview

An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's 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... Read Full Overview

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

"Armadale" by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-epistolary novel. Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them. A literary classic.

Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood--he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim.

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Two young men linked by a familial murder mystery, a beautiful yet wicked governess who spins a web of deceit, and five individuals named Allan Armadale: Wilkie Collins's follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of... Read Full Overview

Wilkie Collins, considerado por muchos como el padre de la novela polic aca y de intriga moderna, nos ofrece en "Armadale" una de sus novelas m s completas y una de las c spides de su obra. En 1832, en un balneario alem n, un hombre llamado Allan Armadale, ya en su lecho de muerte,... Read Full Overview

Wilkie Collins's "Armadale" is a gripping exploration of duality, identity, and moral ambiguity, intricately woven into a tale of mystery and suspense. Published in 1866, the novel employs Collins's characteristic blend of sensation fiction and the detective genre, engaging readers... Read Full Overview

It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad.The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town, and the diligence was expected every minute. Before the door of the principal inn, waiting the arrival... Read Full Overview

Armadale - A novel is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we... Read Full Overview

Two young men linked by a familial murder mystery, a beautiful yet wicked governess who spins a web of deceit, and five individuals named Allan Armadale: Wilkie Collins's follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of... Read Full Overview

This novel explores the role of women, the divided self, and the need to acknowledge the darker side of the personality: a modern theme grafted on to a traditional melodrama.

Armadale by Wilkie Collins is a classic sensation novel that weaves a complex web of mystery, identity, and fate. The story centers on two men, both named Allan Armadale, whose lives become intertwined through a dark secret from the past. When Lydia Gwilt, a manipulative and... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview