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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.

Armadale is a mystery novel. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer... 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

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

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

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

The third of Wilkie Collins' four great novels of the 1860's, Armadale deals with the emergence of the autonomous, sexually active woman from the dichotomies of Madonna and Magdalene. Above all, it explores the divided self and the need to acknowledge the darker side of the personality... Read Full Overview

The third of Wilkie Collins' four great novels of the 1860's, Armadale deals with the emergence of the autonomous, sexually active woman from the dichotomies of Madonna and Magdalene. Above all, it explores the divided self and the need to acknowledge the darker side of the personality... 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

Armadale is a novel written by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1866. The book tells the story of two men, Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter, who are both named after their fathers. The two men have never met, but their lives become intertwined when they both fall in love... Read Full Overview