![]() Strictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes. Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name. ![]() He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. But Ozias is constantly haunted by feeling that he might harm Allan, first after he reads the letter left for him, and then again after they spend the night on a shipwreck off the IsĬategorie(s): Fiction, Mystery & Detective He becomes a companion to the other Allan Armadale, who throughout the novel never discovers the relationship. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter. The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them. Armadale (1866) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-epistolary novel. ![]()
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