The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins
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THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick. When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave the mild climate a fair trial, and then decided (as she herself expressed it) to "die at home." Traveling slowly, she had reached Paris at the date when I last heard of her. It was then the beginning of November. A week later, I met with her nephew, Lewis Romayne, at the club. "What brings you to London at this time of year?" I asked.
The Black Robe, by Wilkie Collins- Published on: 2015-06-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .25" w x 8.50" l, .59 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 108 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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Victorian Soap Opera By K. Wagner I read this book on my Kindle from the Wilkie Collins Collection. Its not one of his greatest but it is a fine book. A young man suffering from an emotional shock is being manipulated by 2 groups. The first group is made up of friends who want to see him married. The second group is headed by a Catholic priest who wants to see the young man converted and return the Abbey* property back to the Church. [*Lands which were taken from the Church by Henry the VIII in the 16th century and given to the young man's family.] The 2 groups working against each other make the book humorous in the beginning. It only turns tragic later on with a somewhat happy ending.It is one of Collin's shorter works and well worth reading. If this book was being written in modern times. A fictional cult would be created, but the Roman Catholic Church is useful for the plot because of its views on marriage and divorce.
20 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Victorian prejudice By Francine Smith This book contains tiresome characters in an anti-catholic setting. For a Wilkie Collins book, it is absolutely dreadful. Still, it is a Collins book, so at least it is well written. A man and woman marry. A Jesuit, out to get the man's property, breaks up the marriage and succeeds in making everyone miserable, including the reader. While I had heard of the prejudice against Jews and Catholics in Victorian England, it never hit home until I read this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great Read and awesome characters By Verena Techie This book did not get great reviews and compared to his other books it perhaps was not as suspenseful and a little sad but I loved the characters and the interplay between marriage or religion, who would win and how sometimes religion can take advantage of people who are down on their luck and needing something and so can women for that matter! I also loved the ending. I am loving everything that Wilkie Collins writes and I wish I could have met him. His books will deal with topics that were taboo in his day and that's fun. (Like pregnancy out of wedlock or the sad state of marriage and inheritance laws for women.)
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