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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798200793051
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ISBN: 9798200793044
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ISBN: 9798200793068
| Runtime: | 23.00 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
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.
The plot follows the fortunes of a woman who, committed to marriage with one man, comes to believe that she may have inadvertently married his friend, according to the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland.
Collins shows himself to be a masterly storyteller, seamlessly moving the action from a country house to a suburb of London—and into a world of deceit and murder.
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Author
Author Bio: Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced. Instead, he devoted his time to writing and is best known for his novels The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone, which has been called the finest detective story ever written. A number of his works were collaborations with his close friend, Charles Dickens. The Woman in White so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: “Author of The Woman in White.”
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Runtime: | 23.00 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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