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No Name Paperback - 1995

by Collins, Wilkie

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  • Title No Name
  • Author Collins, Wilkie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
  • Date July 1, 1995
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6550741-6
  • ISBN 9780140433975 / 014043397X
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.53 x 5.19 x 1.15 in (19.13 x 13.18 x 2.92 cm)
  • Reading level 1050
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95177962
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover that they were born before their parents were married. Their sudden illegitimacy robs them of their inheritance and their accustomed place in society.

From the rear cover

Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The Moonstone. For its family secret - the Vanstone daughters' illegitimacy, their consequent disinheritance and fall from social grace - is revealed early on, and as Magdalen Vanstone struggles to reclaim her identity, the plot uncovers many a moral, social and legal skeleton in the cupboards of Victorian society. Mercurial and unscrupulous, Magdalen is Wilkie Collins's most exhilarating heroine, one of the rare subversives in Victorian fiction and a woman dazzlingly versatile in her powers of self-transformation. Through her, with great comic vigour, No Name exposes how social identity is constructed, and how it can be dismantled, buried, borrowed or invented.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/15/1995, Page 96

About the author

Wilkie (William) Collins (1824-89) was a hugely successful and popular crime, mystery and suspense writer. He wrote the first full-length detective novels in English and set a mould for the genre as shown in The Moonstone and "The Woman in White."

Mark Ford is a lecturer in English Literature at University College London. His publications include the poetry collections Landlocked and Soft Sift and he has also edited Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby for Penguin Classics.

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