LA POBRE SEÑORITA FINCH

LA POBRE SEÑORITA FINCH

WILKIE COLLINS

$930.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALBA
Materia
NOVELAS
ISBN:
978-84-89846-70-8
Idioma:
Castellano

«La pobre señorita Finch» (1871-1872) cuenta la historia de una joven ciega que, en el trance de recuperar la vista, se encuentra en el centro de una red de mentiras piadosas y engaños malignos. Intrigas y conspiraciones ponen a prueba la fidelidad y la entereza de una mujer que, abocada ahora a un tortuoso desequilibrio entre la visión y el sentimiento, acaba renegando del don que gracias a la medicina ha recobrado. Wilkie Collins nació en 1824, estudió leyes, y fue pintor y actor, y antes de 1851 publicó una biografía de su padre, el paisajista William Collins, una novela histórica y un libro de viajes. En 1852 publicó «Basil», una obra que abrió paso a una serie de novelas llenas de misterio y violencia con brillante técnica y compleja estructura que sentaron las bases del moderno relato detectivesco . En 1860 publica «La dama de blanco», en 1862 «Armadale» y en 1868 «La piedra lunar». Collins murió en Londres en 1889, después de una larga carrera de éxitos.

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    Die reizende und vermögende Laura Fairlie wird mit dem adligen Mitgiftjäger Baronet Glyde verheiratet. Mithilfe eines zwielichtigen Grafen beraubt er seine Frau ihrer Identität und gelangt dadurch an ihr Vermögen. ...

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  • RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS, OR, NOTES IN CORNWALL TAKEN A-FOOT
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    An illustrated travel book narrating writer Wilkie Collins's 1850 walking tour of Cornwall with his artist friend, Henry Brandling. Published in 1851 and dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland. In those days 'even the railway stops short at Plymouth' and the travellers have to sail to their first destination at St Germains. William 'Wilkie' Collins (1824-1889) was an English n...

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  • THE DEAD ALIVE AND A FAIR PENITENT
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    "The Dead Alive": A fitting companion to The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins produced one of the first, if not the first, court room drama in whose footsteps a myriad of subsequent authors have followed. Based on a true story, Collins adds a narrator and a confidant but few other embellishments illustrating how easily the cause of justice can be perverted. Along the way he casts a fe...

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  • THE BLACK ROBE
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    The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card game, where he has an argument with a cor...

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  • "I SAY NO"
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    This 1884 novel features a young orphan, Emily Brown, who is courted by two eligible bachelors: Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school, and a clergyman, Miles Mirabel. Both claim to love her, but only one is telling the truth . . . and the other may be implicated in the suspicious death of her father. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
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    A remote castle in Wales inhabited by three older men is the last place on earth that a young, lively girl of 18 would want to spend time. And yet, when forced by circumstances to take up residence there for six weeks prior to coming of age, Jessie surprises them all by finding immense enjoyment in the experience and by capturing each of her adopted uncles' hearts. As the time ...

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