Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will, and when the girls are suddenly orphaned, their inheritance goes to their uncle. Now penniless, the conventional Norah takes up a position as a governess.

General Information

ISBN : 9780140433975
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Classics
Weight (g) : 0.456
Publication date : 01 December 1994
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Wilkie Collins
Bind : Paperback
Dewey classification : 823.8
Pages : 618

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Author description

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.