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Hide and Seek
Wilkie Collins
Book Overview:
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment in a traveling circus and adopts her, and mentors a young man who gets in trouble with his tyrannical father. The girl, who received the nickname ‚Madonna’, falls in love with the young man, Zack. Because one of Valentine’s biggest fears is that Madonna’s blood relations will one day trace her and take her away from his home, he keeps the little that he knows of her origins a strict secret. One day, Zack befriends a mysterious stranger, who has just returned from years of rough life in the American wilderness. From that moment, the plot thickens, in mid-19th century dramatic style
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment in a traveling circus and adopts her, and mentors a young man who gets in trouble with his tyrannical father. The girl, who received the nickname ‚Madonna’, falls in love with the young man, Zack. Because one of Valentine’s biggest fears is that Madonna’s blood relations will one day trace her and take her away from his home, he keeps the little that he knows of her origins a strict secret. One day, Zack befriends a mysterious stranger, who has just returned from years of rough life in the American wilderness. From that moment, the plot thickens, in mid-19th century dramatic style
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"It's worse than distressing, indeed, sir, even to think of that dreadful accident," said Mrs. Peckover, "and specially as I can't help taking some blame to myself for it. But if the lady wishes to know how it happened, I'm sure I'm agreeable to tell her. People in our way of life, ma'am—as I've often heard Peggy Burke say—are obliged to dry the tear at their eyes long before it's gone from their hearts. But pray don't think, sir, I mean that now about myself and in your company. If I do feel low at talking of little Mary's misfortune, I can take a look out into the garden there, and see how happy she is—and that's safe to set me right again."
"I ought to tell you first, sir," proceeded the clown's wife, after waiting thoughtfully for a moment or two before she spoke. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Hide and Seek (1854), Wilkie Collins’s third novel, was my choice for relaxing Christmas reading and it worked magnificently on that score. By the end, I was gripped, and even moved, by the story (hokey though it is, by the cold light of the morning after). There were also, as ever with Collins, all
Maybe 3.5. I always love Wilkie Collins's writing, so the reading experience was enjoyable, but I did have a few issues with this one. The pacing felt a little off, and the novel didn't seem to have as much peril and tension as Wilkie Collins thought it did. I also struggled with the ending. A mixed
I read this from Complete Works of Wilkie Collins, which is unpaginated, rather than the edition I have shelved which GR says is 260 pages. So I was somewhat frustrated that it was taking me *much* longer to read than I had planned. I think also the beginning is slower than I expected. It is one of
Wilkie Collins is one of my favourite classical authors but unfortunately this book didn't match up to some of the others I've read. It was just OK for lack of a better word.
The book's first half concerns a painter who adopts a deaf orphan child from a circus, and the second unravels the mystery of
I always enjoy a Wilkie Collins book.
I adore Wilkie Collins. I prefer him to all his Victorian colleagues (O Hardy! My Hardy! Forgive me. It's a tie between you and Wilkie). The man had soul.
Hide and Seek is a tale of love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness.
It is both very modern and very outdated.
You find yourself appreciating not