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Author(s): Wilkie Collins
Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will, and when the girls are suddenly orphaned, their inheritance goes to their uncle. Now penniless, the conventional Norah takes up a position as a governess.
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Wilkie (William) Collins (1824-89) was a hugely successful and popular crime, mystery and suspense writer. He wrote the first full-length detective novels in English and set a mould for the genre as shown in The Moonstone and 'The Woman in White'. Mark Ford is a lecturer in English Literature at University College London. His publications include the poetry collections Landlocked and Soft Sift and he has also edited Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby for Penguin Classics.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.456
- : 01 December 1994
- : books
Special Fields
- : 618
- : very good
- : 823.8
- : Paperback
- : Wilkie Collins