Armadale
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About This Book
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, romantic rivalries, espionage, money—and murder. The character of Lydia Gwilt horrified contemporary critics, with one reviewer describing her as "One of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction." She remains among the most enigmatic and fascinating women in nineteenth-century literature and the dark heart of this most sensational of Victorian "sensation novels."
58
Chapters
~696 min
Est. Listening Time
English
Language
4.0 ★
Goodreads Rating
Chapters (58)
- ARMADALE
- ARMADALE.
- PROLOGUE.
- I. THE TRAVELERS.
- II. THE SOLID SIDE OF THE SCOTCH CHARACTER.
- III. THE WRECK OF THE TIMBER SHIP.
- THE STORY.
- BOOK THE FIRST.
- I. THE MYSTERY OF OZIAS MIDWINTER.
- II. THE MAN REVEALED.
- III. DAY AND NIGHT
- IV. THE SHADOW OF THE PAST.
- V. THE SHADOW OF THE FUTURE.
- BOOK THE SECOND
- I. LURKING MISCHIEF.
- 1. From Ozias Midwinter to Mr. Brock.
- II. ALLAN AS A LANDED GENTLEMAN.
- III. THE CLAIMS OF SOCIETY.
- IV. THE MARCH OF EVENTS.
- V. MOTHER OLDERSHAW ON HER GUARD.
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"Armadale" was written by Wilkie Collins. It is classified as Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror & Gothic, Mystery & Detective.
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