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Bezig met laden... Mad Monkton and other storiesdoor Wilkie Collins
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  ffortsa | Mar 26, 2024 |   Monkton le Fou est un roman gothique tout ce qu’il y a de plus classique de par sa facture et son sujet. Un homme qui vit sous le coup d’une prophétie lugubre qui prédit la fin de sa lignée, et qui, par ce qu’il y croit, permettra qu’elle se réalise. Une lecture facile et rapide, qui était ce dont j’avais besoin ou envie à ce moment-là. Je ne suis pas une grande amatrice du genre, si bien que cette lecture ne me laissera pas un grand souvenir, sinon que maintenant je peux dire que j’ai lu Wilkie Collins ! raton-liseur | Nov 1, 2019 |  ) pepesaura | Apr 26, 2011 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the best-selling creator of the vogue for `sensation fiction' in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length novel. In particular, he produced a stream of often brillant and original short stories. Adapting thetradition of the Gothic tale of terror, he wrote ghost stories with a distinctively contemporary flavour and also made a major contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective story.This volume has a substantial and informative introduction which places the stories in the context of Collins's career and the Victorian literary scene. It brings together samples of his work from three decades and demonstrates that as a purveyor of mystery, suspense, and the uncanny, as achronicler of the dark underside of everyday life in the mid-Victorian period, and as a story-teller who quickly seizes the reader's interest and refuses to let go, Collins has few rivals. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I listened to this book as an entry in [Fifteen Great Novellas]. It is a very Victorian story, involving ghosts, family curses, romance, and the Catholic (gasp!) Church. The main character, Monkton, is currently the last of his line, and believes that he must find his uncle's body and return it to the family vault or he will permanently be the last Monkton. His uncle has died in an illegal duel near Naples, which is where most of the story takes place.
It was very well read, but because the reader is a woman, it took me a long time to realize the narrative character was male. Silly me, there were lots of clues that Collins' contemporaries would have registered immediately. (