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Armadale

(Oxford World's Classic)

By Wilkie Collins

(11)

| Paperback | 9780192834676

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Book Description

The third of Wilkie Collins' four great novels of the 1860's, Armadale deals with the emergence of the autonomous, sexually active woman from the dichotomies of Madonna and Magdalene. Above all, it explores the divided self and the need to acknowledge the darker side of the personality.

1 Review

Flat characters, shallow story: this book is tediously, incredibly long, the narrative proceeds with no direction, it floats pointlessly a little over here, now over there, leaving you at the end (if you have the patience to reach it, that is) with a white-hot question burning in your mind. "Why, oh ... (continue)

Flat characters, shallow story: this book is tediously, incredibly long, the narrative proceeds with no direction, it floats pointlessly a little over here, now over there, leaving you at the end (if you have the patience to reach it, that is) with a white-hot question burning in your mind. "Why, oh why did I ever waste so much of my life on Earth reading this...this utter total complete failure of a book?"
By far the worst Collins novel I ever read, what a pity, what a tragedy, what immeasurable waste of time.

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