Armadale
- 829 pages
- 30 hours of reading
Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.
Catherine Peters Books
An expert in 19th-century fiction, Catherine Peters previously served as a Lecturer in English at Somerville College, Oxford. Her work focuses on deep literary analysis.
World's Classics: Poor Miss Finch
- 470 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Wilkie Collins's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Collins gives one of the best accounts in fiction of blindness and its implications.
