ISBN: 9781105659102

The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story (First published 1886) Wilkie Collins' book about family relationships, breakdowns and forgiveness. The novel begins with a shipwreck, a trial, and … mais…

The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story (First published 1886) Wilkie Collins' book about family relationships, breakdowns and forgiveness. The novel begins with a shipwreck, a trial, and missing jewels, A governess named Sydney, raised without parents, then becomes infatuated with her married employer, Mr. Linley, but it is forbidden love. Sydney leaves for another position, but is drawn back into the household. What follows is a divorce, a scandal and the injustice surrounding such an issue in Victorian times. The novel became Wilkie Collins' most commercially successful novel. The story was ahead of its time in presenting both the wife and the mistress of an adulterous husband in a sympathetic light and concentrating the reader's attention on the plight of the child involved in the break-up of a marriage. Collins unexpectedly upholds double standards in a passage added shortly before publication, claiming that a husband's adultery should not, by itself, be sufficient grounds for divorce. Collins also used the plot for a dramatic version with the same title. He wrote the book and play simultaneously and traces of his method can be detected in the novel which has an unusually high proportion of dialogue. Digital Content>E-books>Mystery>Mystery>Mystery, Lulu.com Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781105659102

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