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The two destinies

Wilkie Collins · 1876

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One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the afterlife, as well as Victorian ideas of morality, fidelity and wronged women. An interesting book, if not his best.

First sentence: WHEN you last saw me, I was a boy of thirteen.

Book details

Year
1876
Language
English
Publisher
IndyPublish.com
Editions
71
Pages
252
ISBN
9781404336148

Data source: Wikidata

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