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"In one respect, me are all alike; they hate to see a woman in tears."

The Evil Genius is Wilkie Collins's novel about marital complications, adultery, divorce and child-custody. Herbert Linley engages in an illicit romantic relationship with his daughter's governess, Sydney... Read Full Overview

Wilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstoneand The Woman in White--and for a life as sensational as are those novels. (The writer who famously advised other novelists to 'make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait' is now known to have kept entire households... Read Full Overview

La reina del mal es una novela victoriana del escritor ingl s Wilkie Collins, publicada en 1886. La novela se adelanta a su poca, tratando temas tan modernos como el divorcio y la tenencia de los hijos. La reina del mal nos introduce en un tri ngulo amoroso: la esposa, la amante... Read Full Overview

Kitty is the child of Herbert and Catherine Linley, a spoiled, coddled little girl who is at the same time, in the tradition of all Victorian children, adorable. The Evil Genius begins with the story of the Kitty's ill-fated governess Sydney Westerfield, a... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story

The Evil Genius is a novel written by Wilkie Collins, a renowned English author of the 19th century. The story follows the life of a young woman named Rosamund Frankland, who is forced to marry a wealthy and powerful man named Lionel Turlington. However, Rosamund soon discovers... Read Full Overview

"The Evil Genius" from Wilkie Collins. English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories (1824-1889).

Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this was also... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview

The Evil Genius - A Domestic Story is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. 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... Read Full Overview

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The last has been called the first modern English detective novel.