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Title: No Name (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Wilkie Collins, Virginia Blain ISBN: 0-19-283388-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: tons of fun
Comment: This is the best-plotted book I have ever read. The intricacies of the ingenious cat-and-mouse game kept me unable to put the book down (despite its length, and my general impatience as a slow reader). Unlike other books I've read by Collins, this one is also extremely funny, largely because of one character who is an incredible rascal and scoundrel. This is really one of the most enjoyable novels I've ever found.
Rating: 4
Summary: Page-turner
Comment: Engrossing, densely textured read.
Could claim greatness on the basis of the Wragges and Madame alone, but also contains one of the most original heroines in Victorian fiction,and draws a fascinating portrait of venality, social corruption and hypocrisy -- at times, it reminded me of both 'Pere Goriot' and 'Les Miserables'.
And it's full of those little concrete details that make nineteenth century fiction so deliciously materialistic. Don't miss out on the Oriental Cashmere Robe!
Rating: 5
Summary: A piercing look at social mores
Comment: It is to Wilkie Collins' credit that more than a century after he wrote his novels, they still engage the reader and make sense in social terms. In "No Name," two sisters by the last name of Vanstone find out that they are illegitimate. Their formerly comfortable lives are disrupted to the core as their lose their places in society, their friends, their inheritances, and even, literally, their names. Collins makes their predicament alive and vital despite the fact that today this sort of news would barely stir a social ripple.
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Title: Armadale (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland ISBN: 0140434119 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 0486243338 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Law and the Lady (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins, David Skilton ISBN: 0140436073 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Woman in White (Classics) by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 055321263X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins ISBN: 0486237753 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1979 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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