Classic English Novel: Armadar (set of 8 Volumes in Total)
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Thenovelisa19th-century semi-epistolaryone. ArmadaleisanovelbyWilkieCollins, firstpublishedin1864-66. Somelinkingpassagesconsistoflettersbetweenthevariouscharacters, orofextractsfromLydia'sjournal, b utthegreatmajorityofthetextnarratestheeventsastheyoccur. ThenovelhasaconvolutedplotabouttwodistantcousinsbothnamedAllanArmadale. Thefatherofonehadmurderedthefatheroftheother(thetwofathersarealsona medAllanArmadale).'Thedistortionsoftheplot, theviolentandirrationalreactionsofthecharacters, reflectanddramatisethewaysinwhichhisreaders'perceptionsweredistortedbytheassumptionsandhypocrisiesofth esocietyinwhichtheylived,"writesCatherinePetersinthecommentbook. ItisthethirdofWilkieCollins'sfour'greatnovels'ofthe1860s: afterTheWomaninWhite(1859–60)andNoName(1862), andbeforeTheMoonstone(1868).
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