Armadale

Armadale - Wilkie Collins - The third of Wilkie Collins's four great novels of the 1860s, coming after ‘The Woman in White’ and ‘No Name’ and immediately before ‘The Moonstone’, ‘Armadale’ is quintessentially a novel of its decade. It deals with the emergence of the autonomous, sexually active woman from the dichotomies of Madonna and Magdalen; with the legal tangles of the unsatisfactory marriage...