Miss or Mrs.?, by Wilkie Collins
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The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on land—the silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea. Not a breath came from the dead air. Not a ripple stirred on the motionless water. Nothing changed but the softly-growing light; nothing moved but the lazy mist, curling up to meet the sun, its master, on the eastward sea. By fine gradations, the airy veil of morning thinned in substance as it rose—thinned, till there dawned through it in the first rays of sunlight the tall white sails of a Schooner Yacht.
Miss or Mrs.?, by Wilkie Collins- Published on: 2015-06-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .19" w x 6.00" l, .27 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 84 pages
About the Author English novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer with a body of work comprising thirty novels, over sixty short stories, more than a dozen plays, and a wide range of non-fiction pieces. Collins is best known for his novels The Woman in White, an early sensation novela genre combining shocking gothic horror with everyday domestic settingsand The Moonstone, which is credited as one of the first modern mystery novels. In the 1850s Collins met Charles Dickens and the two struck up a friendship, which lead to Collins becoming a frequent contributor to Dickens s journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Many of his stories have been adapted for film, including Basil, A Terribly Strange Bed, The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Collins died in 1889 at the age of 65.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A Light (Very Light) Romance By Francine Smith This is a throw away book for Wilkie Collins. It's a short romance with a subplot about a murderous sea captain. Well worth a read if it falls in your lap, but no masterpiece.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Okay book. By C. Avery This book starts off very slowly and is at times tedious and boring, but if you stick with it the plot builds nicely. I notice that this is often the case with classic books.Basically, this book is about a 38yr old man about to marry a 15-16 year old girl in about 1880 England. The girl wants none of it, she wants her cousin who is in his early 20s. She is weak and afraid to upset her father. She is convinced to marry the cousin secretly through posting of the banns in a remote area where no one will know to contest the marriage. Apparently there is an abduction law for girls under 15 so she cant leave with her new husband. Basically, she is left the last month of her 15th year with her father who is still actively planning the marriage to the older sea captain.Turns out the sea captain has a shady past and is now in some financial mess. He is very suspicious and knows, but cant prove, that something is going on between the cousins. He needs to marry her for her dowry, not just because he covets her. In an attempt to control things, he invites the family out to his country home. There are attempted murders as the plot thickens. The last 20% of the book is quite interesting. I wont actually spoil it all for those who want to read this book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Delightful short book By Israel Drazin This is a delightful short novel by the famed author of such books as The Woman in White and Moonstone that readers can obtain free of charge from sources such as amazon because the copyright has expired. The book has two principle plots. A young girl of fifteen is physically well developed and quite pretty and is being wooed by a man who is much older than her. The father of the girl, who also married a girl much younger than him, is somewhat naïve, but very wealthy and so is the man who is wooing her. The latter is very friendly with the girl's father who consented to her marrying him. He has been managing her father's wealth. However she is in love with a much younger man, her cousin, and he with her. This being the mid-nineteenth century and because her father has always shown the young girl loving affection, she does not want to hurt her father's feelings. Thus the two lovers have to meet in secret. The young man wants to marry his love before the date that her father promised to allow the older man to marry her. But they face a problem: she is below the age of consent and if they elope he would be charged with kidnapping. The second plot focuses on the older suitor. There is a suspicion that he was involved in a hideous murder and is not who he appears to be. He is a very strong man, much stronger and with more resources than the younger man. He is having a problem that is not revealed early in the book. But it is revealed that he knows what the young man is up to, and he is fanatically jealous. As is usual in these tales, there is humor. The girl's father and his loving sister have a habit of interrupting each other's narratives with corrections, and this is repeatedly done in a very funny manner. When this habit is mentioned to them, they are surprised. They insist they never would dare contradict each other. The two plots are not unusual and have been used by other authors, but readers will, I believe, enjoy how Wilkie Collins is able to tell his tale with suspense in an interesting way.
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