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Man and Wife
Wilkie Collins
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Man and Wife
Wilkie Collins
Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins's ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married, either before witnesses or in writing, were regarded in Scotland as being legally married.
The novel, the next in sequence after Collins's highly successful The Moonstone, was a commercial success. Among modern critics, Peters holds a low opinion of its plot and characterisation, but Page argues that it should be classed with Collins's acclaimed 1860s fiction rather than with his later, and inferior, polemical novels. The novel has proved enduringly popular and remains in print. (wikipedia.org)
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 11, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781636375557 |
Publishers | Bibliotech Press |
Pages | 434 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 29 mm · 802 g |
Language | English |
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