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Man and Wife
English BooksWhale Edition by Wilkie Collins
A sensation novel about marriage law, athletic culture, deception, inheritance, and social hypocrisy.
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Man and Wife
Man and Wife is Wilkie Collins’s English sensation novel exposing anxieties around marriage law, bodily discipline, class advantage, and legal ambiguity. This BooksWhale public-domain edition offers the original text for readers of Victorian fiction, social critique, mystery, and domestic drama.
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Wilkie Collins died in 1889, and Man and Wife was first published in 1870. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original edition.
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Man and Wife
Wilkie Collins
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PROLOGUE.--THE IRISH MARRIAGE.
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THE VILLA AT HAMPSTEAD.
Table of contents
Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02PROLOGUE.--THE IRISH MARRIAGE.
- 03Part the First.
- 04I.
- 05II.
- 06III.
- 07IV.
- 08Part the Second.
- 09V.
- 10VI.
- 11VII.
- 12VIII.
- 13IX.
- 14CHAPTER THE FIRST.
- 15CHAPTER THE SECOND.
- 16CHAPTER THE THIRD.
- 17CHAPTER THE FOURTH.
- 18CHAPTER THE FIFTH.
- 19CHAPTER THE SIXTH.
- 20CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.
- 21CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.
- 22CHAPTER THE NINTH.
- 23CHAPTER THE TENTH.
- 24CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.
- 25CHAPTER THE TWELFTH.
- 26“ANNE SILVESTER.”
- 27“GEOFFREY DELAMAYN.”
- 28CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.
- 29CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH.
- 30CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH.
- 31CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH.
- 32CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
- 33CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH.
- 34CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH.
- 35CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH.
- 36CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST.
- 37DONE!
- 38CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND.
- 39CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD.
- 40CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH.
- 41CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH.
- 42CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH.
- 43CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH.
- 44CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH.
- 45CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH.
- 46CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH.
- 47CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIRST
- 48CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND.
- 49CHAPTER THE THIRTY-THIRD.
- 50CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FOURTH.
- 51CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIFTH.
- 52CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SIXTH.
- 53“ANNE SILVESTER.”
- 54CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH.
- 55CHAPTER THE THIRTY-EIGHTH.
- 56CHAPTER THE THIRTY-NINTH.
- 57CHAPTER THE FORTIETH.
- 58CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIRST.
- 59CHAPTER THE FORTY-SECOND.
- 60CHAPTER THE FORTY-THIRD.
- 61CHAPTER THE FORTY-FOURTH.
- 62“ANNE SILVESTER.”
- 63CHAPTER THE FORTY-FIFTH.
- 64CHAPTER THE FORTY-SIXTH.
- 65CHAPTER THE FORTY-SEVENTH.
- 66CHAPTER THE FORTY-EIGHTH.
- 67CHAPTER THE FORTY-NINTH.
- 68CHAPTER THE FIFTIETH.
- 69CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIRST.
- 70CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SECOND.
- 71CHAPTER THE FIFTY-THIRD.
- 72CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FOURTH.
- 731.
- 742.
- 753.
- 764.
- 775.
- 786.
- 797.
- 808.
- 819.
- 8210.
- 8311.
- 8412.
- 85CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FIFTH.
- 86CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SIXTH.
- 87CHAPTER THE FIFTY-SEVENTH.
- 88I.
- 89II.
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