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The Guilty River
Wilkie Collins
Book Overview:
After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf man, called The Lodger is obsessed with Cristel. He invites Gerard to tea with evil intentions… and Gerard accepts the invitation.
The book is written in the first person and tells the story from Gerard's point of view.
After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf man, called The Lodger is obsessed with Cristel. He invites Gerard to tea with evil intentions… and Gerard accepts the invitation.
The book is written in the first person and tells the story from Gerard's point of view.
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"Judicious friends, who had been waiting for their opportunity, undertook the moral management of me next.
"I was advised to cultivate cheerfulness, to go into society, to encourage kind people who tried to make me hear what was going on, to be on my guard against morbid depression, to check myself when the sense of my own horrible isolation drove me away to my room, and, last but by no means least, to beware of letting my vanity disincline me to use an ear-trumpet.
"I did my best, honestly did my best, to profit by the suggestions that were offered to me—not because I believed in the wisdom of my friends, but because I dreaded the effect of self-imposed solitude on my nature. Since the fatal day when I had opened the sealed packet, I was on my guard against the inherited evil lying dormant, for all I knew to the contrary, in my father's son. Impelled by that horrid dread, I suffered my daily martyrdom with a courage that asto. . . Read More
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This is an Oxford Classic edition of three of Wilkie Colins' novelettes. I liked the first & third better than the middle one. The first was exciting! The third described the great difficulties of deafness for a person deafened in adulthood.
Wilkie Collins never disappoints. I love his writing and his characters. There is always the page-turning thrill but a little chuckle at society as well. I love him! I wish he had as much literary credit as his bestie. These novellas were easy to read and quick too. I love Miss it Mrs. and The Haunt
This collection of Wilkie Collins novellas was somewhat uneven. I am crazy about many of his books - The Moonstone, The Woman in White, and Armadale chief among them. I liked the title piece quite a bit...included many of Collins's signature touches. But the whole thing felt kind of rushed. The stor
Miss or Mrs?
A thriller/sensational story: Richard Turlington falls in love with his best friend Sir Joseph's daughter, Natalie. Natalie is in love with her cousin and close friend, Launce. Turlington is accustomed to getting what he wants. The secret lovers devise a scheme to prevent Turlington from
Wilkie, himself, described these stories as "outlines".
They were not as compelling as his "full" novels and, since they were not meant to give great detail, sometimes felt "rushed" in regards to "loose ends".
Here are my ratings of each:
Miss or Mrs? 3 stars [ I think this would make a good teleplay--
Wilkie is (was) a pre-eminant Victorian author. I've read two of his best known books (Moonstone and Woman in White and a runner-up, No Name. He is a master storyteller and these three novellas did him justice. I have to wonder, though, if the sometimes seeming absurdity of the plots were actually b
A grouping of three novellas by Wilkie Collins first published between 1871 and 1886, so I expected some differences in style as a result. To me, the strongest story was the first and the weakest was the last. Miss or Mrs? (1871) was short enough to force an impressive pace to the plot. The Haunted