Armadale

Collins, Wilkie

Armadale. -- Saga Egmont 2022. -- Saga Egmont. -- 752. -- Resumé: The Athenaeum reviewer of Armadale (1866) was only one of many contemporary critics horrified by Lydia Gwilt, the bigamist, husband-prisoner and laudanum addict whose intrgues spur the plot of this most sensational of Victorian "sensational novels". When Miss Gwilt flings herself from the first-class deck of a Thames steamer, her attempted suicide sets off events that lead to Allan Armadale inheriting Thorpe-Ambrose in Norfolk, romantic rivalries, espionage, counter-espionage and greedy plans for murder. -- ISBN : (brož.) 9990003836540. -- (e-kniha) 9788726933307.

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