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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

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

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 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

Man and Wife, published ten years after Wilkie Collins's most popular novel, The Woman in White, centers on the confused and inequitable marriage laws of nineteenth-century Britain, reflecting the author's own antipathy towards the institution.

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Man and Wife (1870) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written at the height of Collins' career, Man and Wife displays the author's the trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease that made him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important... 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" delves into the intricate dynamics of a complex marriage, exploring the unspoken tensions and hidden truths that simmer beneath the surface of domestic life. Set against a richly detailed backdrop, the novel examines the evolving roles of men and women, and... 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

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