eBooks - Literature - Classics - Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife
Man and Wife eBooks
by Wilkie Collins
|
Platforms
Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.69
|
|
Platforms
Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.89
|
|
Platforms
Windows Computers, Mac, Linux, more... Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.99
|
|
Platforms
Windows Computers, Mac, Linux, more... Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $7.95
|
|
Platforms
Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.89
|
|
Platforms
Windows 98 or higher Desktop and Laptop Computers, Tablet PC, and all Pocket PC's. Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.99
|
|
Platforms
Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $3.29
|
|
Platforms
Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $3.47
|
|
Platforms
Windows 98 or higher Desktop and Laptop Computers, Tablet PC, and all Pocket PC's. Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $7.95
|
|
Platforms
Windows PC, Palm, Pocket PC, eBookMan, SmartPhones, and more. Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.75
|
|
Platforms
Windows PC, Palm, Pocket PC, eBookMan, SmartPhones, and more. Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $2.99
|
|
Platforms
Windows PC, Palm, Pocket PC, eBookMan, SmartPhones, and more. Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $3.78
|
|
Platforms
Windows PC, Palm, Pocket PC, eBookMan, SmartPhones, and more. Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $5.95
|
|
Platforms
All Palm & Pocket PC handheld devices plus all Windows and Macintosh computers. Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $4.14
|
|
Platforms
All Palm & Pocket PC handheld devices plus all Windows and Macintosh computers. Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $4.95
|
|
Platforms Windows, Tablet PC, Windows CE, Macintosh, Linux, Unix. Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $4.95
|
|
Platforms Windows Computers, Tablet PC Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $5.95
|
|
Platforms Windows Computers, Tablet PC, Windows CE, Macintosh, Linux, Unix Features
|
Availability:
Email Delivery Price: $2.95
|
Man and Wife Summary
| 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. |
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
| "This time the fiction is founded upon facts," stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day. Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. From this starting-point Collins develops a radical critique of the values and conventions of Victorian society. Collins had already developed a reputation as the master of the "sensation novel," and Man and Wife is as fast moving and unpredictable as The Moonstone and The Woman in White . During the novel the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister as the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder. This book is intended for students of English Literature, particularly Victorian Literature, from undergraduate level upwards. |
|
|
|
Man And Wife -- Adobe PDF ebook. Wilkie Collins’s classic work. |
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
| 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 his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime. |
|
|
| "This time the fiction is founded upon facts," stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day. Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. From this starting-point Collins develops a radical critique of the values and conventions of Victorian society. Collins had already developed a reputation as the master of the "sensation novel," and Man and Wife is as fast moving and unpredictable as The Moonstone and The Woman in White . During the novel the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister as the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder. This book is intended for students of English Literature, particularly Victorian Literature, from undergraduate level upwards. |
|
|
eBooks - Titles - Authors - Literature - Classics - Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife eBooks