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Man and Wife (1870) combines the fast pace and sensational plot structure of Collins's most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian Britain. At its centre is the plight of a woman who fears that the archaic marriage laws of Scotland and... Read Full Overview

WILKIE COLLIINS, hijo del paisajista William Collins, naci en Londres en 1824. Fue aprendiz en una compa a de comercio de t , estudi leyes, hizo sus pinitos como pintor y actor, y antes de conocer a Charles Dickens en 1851, hab a publicado ya una biograf a de su padre, Memoirs... Read Full Overview

Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins' ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from... Read Full Overview

ON a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay. They were both of the same age-eighteen. They had both, from childhood upward, been close and dear... Read Full Overview

Man and Wife (1870) combines the fast pace and sensational plot structure of Collins's most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian Britain. At its centre is the plight of a woman who fears that the archaic marriage laws of Scotland and... Read Full Overview

Lo que empieza como una c ustica, y a menudo hilarante comedia de equ vocos, se transforma paulatinamente en un horrible cuadro conyugal de traici n, venganza, malos tratos, locura y asesinato. Marido y mujer, inmediatamente posterior a La piedra lunar, pertenece al per odo de... Read Full Overview

Man and Wife is a novel written by the famous English author, Wilkie Collins. It was published in 1870 and is considered to be one of Collins' most controversial works due to its exploration of the legal and moral issues surrounding marriage and divorce.The story follows the... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

Reproduction of the original: Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of... Read Full Overview