No Name (Penguin Classics)

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Maybe its lenght, maybe (in my humble opinion) the too much simplified summary plot, maybe because I thought I knew what kind of book I was going to read. Magdalen takes it upon herself, through any means to right the wrong that has been done to her sister and herself. Wragge makes enquiries for Magdalen about the inheritance, and when Michael Vanstone dies she turns her attention to his son Noel. Under English law therefore, his entire estate goes to his next of kin – his estranged brother Michael, who heartlessly makes no concessions or recompense towards the two orphaned nieces, Norah and Magdalen, whom he regards as bastard children.

She cannot recover the money by marriage; she cannot reverse the system of inheritance; and short of murdering her husband (which she never contemplates) she cannot gain control over the estate. He attempts to create characters with that kind of caricaturing Dickens does so well, but they come off like pale imitations.a) upload the demos she has been making of her own songs in her bedroom onto youtube, get discovered, go viral and get to be the Victorian Female Bieber? He shows that Magdalene sees the reason of her follies under the kind guidance of her sister and her new love and that she was repentant at the end and is determined to become a better person worthy of her sister and husband. He suggests the book is going to address a social injustice, as Dickens does so well, but in reality his treatment of the stigma of illegitimacy is superficial.

His first serious novel Basil (1852) is the strongest part of that claim, which he reinforced with The Woman in White (1860) which became an instant best-seller and his best known work. c) get entangled in some ridiculous, unlikely and completely delicious plot twists and turns involving becoming an actress, perpetrating brilliant confidence tricks, fake marriage proposals, impersonations and the like with one of the great is-he-a-villain-or-is-he-a-hero characters in English fiction (Captain Wragge)?When Magdalen and Norah Vanstone are left orphaned by the sudden and unexpected deaths of their parents, they are further shocked to discover that their parents had not been married when the girls were born. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. Wilkie Collins est souvent décrit comme l'inventeur du roman à suspense et il est vrai qu'il y en a dans ces romans mais ce sont plus ses talents de narrateur qui me font aimé ces livres: la description précise, pleine de réalité des personnages, de leur caractère, de leurs pensées et la belle prose rappelant Alexandre Dumas. The title “no name” describes two very nice girls who because of their parents’ “sin” are deprived of their name and legacy. Much of the plot concerns Magdalen Vanstone’s quest to gain back what has been wrongfully taken from her and her sister—the inheritance left by her father.