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Armadale by Wilkie Collins Another great Victorian thriller by the author of ‘The Moonstone’ and ‘The Woman in White’ ‘Armadale’ is a Victorian thriller on a grand scale. What is the mysterious tie that binds the two Allan Armadales? Are they destined to destroy each other as their fathers did - or can they be reconciled and wipe out the past? Is the mysterious dream a real prediction of the future or can it be dismissed as unscientific nonsense? As the plot thickens it is dominated by the beautiful and evil Lydia Gwilt, whose charm no man can resist. She and her associates from the seamy side of Victorian London have their own plans for the two Allan Armadales … Wilkie Collins was one of the leading novelists of the 19th century, a close friend of Charles Dickens and Bulwer Lytton. He is remembered now mainly for his thriller ‘The Woman in White’ and his pioneering detective story ‘The Moonstone’. ‘Armadale’ is another of his greatest novels, written at the height of his fame.
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