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A dark Victorian sensation novel of fate, murder, double identity, and manipulation.

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Armadale

Armadale builds an intricate plot around inherited guilt, namesakes, prophecy, and the unforgettable Lydia Gwilt. Collins turns crime, coincidence, and psychological manipulation into one of the boldest and strangest sensation novels of the nineteenth century.

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Wilkie Collins died in 1889, and Armadale was first published in 1866; these dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language English edition.

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Armadale

Wilkie Collins

Chapitre d'aperçuTO JOHN FORSTER.Aperçu

In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his “Life of Goldsmith;” and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the happiest years of my life.

Readers in general--on whose friendly reception experience has given me some reason to rely--will, I venture to hope, appreciate whatever merit there may be in this story without any prefatory pleading for it on my

Chapitre d'aperçupart. They will, I think, see that it has not been hastily meditated orAperçu

idly wrought out. They will judge it accordingly, and I ask no more.

Readers in particular will, I have some reason to suppose, be here and there disturbed, perhaps even offended, by finding that “Armadale” oversteps, in more than one direction, the narrow limits within which they are disposed to restrict the development of modern fiction--if they can.

Nothing that I could say to these persons here would help me with them as Time will help me if my work lasts. I am not afraid of my design being permanently misunderstood, provided the execution has done it any sort of justice. Estimated by the clap-trap morality of the present day, this may be a very daring book. Judged by the Christian morality which is of all time, it is only a book that is daring enough to speak the truth.

LONDON, April, 1866.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02TO JOHN FORSTER.
  3. 03part. They will, I think, see that it has not been hastily meditated or
  4. 04ARMADALE.
  5. 05PROLOGUE.
  6. 06I. THE TRAVELERS.
  7. 07II. THE SOLID SIDE OF THE SCOTCH CHARACTER.
  8. 08III. THE WRECK OF THE TIMBER SHIP.
  9. 09Book tells me that the sin of the father shall be visited on the child.
  10. 10THE END OF THE PROLOGUE.
  11. 11THE STORY.
  12. 12BOOK THE FIRST.
  13. 13I. THE MYSTERY OF OZIAS MIDWINTER.
  14. 14II. THE MAN REVEALED.
  15. 15book-seller’s shop. An old man came to the shop door, looked about him,
  16. 16III. DAY AND NIGHT
  17. 17Part of the newspaper, and no small part of it, was devoted to extracts
  18. 18IV. THE SHADOW OF THE PAST.
  19. 19V. THE SHADOW OF THE FUTURE.
  20. 20“ALLAN ARMADALE’S DREAM.
  21. 21THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK.
  22. 22BOOK THE SECOND
  23. 23I. LURKING MISCHIEF.
  24. 24“OZIAS MIDWINTER.
  25. 25“O. M.”
  26. 26“MARIA OLDERSHAW.”
  27. 27“LYDIA GWILT.
  28. 28“MARIA OLDERSHAW.
  29. 29“L. G.”
  30. 30“MARIA OLDERSHAW.”
  31. 31II. ALLAN AS A LANDED GENTLEMAN.
  32. 32part of it. It was a purely conventional country house--the product of
  33. 33III. THE CLAIMS OF SOCIETY.
  34. 34book-shelves which Midwinter had already noticed. He returned to the
  35. 35volume on the shelves. “Here in the country house, or there on board the
  36. 36“JAMES DARCH.”
  37. 37IV. THE MARCH OF EVENTS.
  38. 38book-seller’s shop. “If I could only have worked at a business!” he
  39. 39V. MOTHER OLDERSHAW ON HER GUARD.
  40. 40“MARIA OLDERSHAW.”
  41. 41“LYDIA GWILT.
  42. 42“M. O.”
  43. 43VI. MIDWINTER IN DISGUISE.
  44. 44VII. THE PLOT THICKENS.
  45. 45“ALLAN ARMADALE.”
  46. 46“DECIMUS BROCK.”
  47. 47VIII. THE NORFOLK BROADS.
  48. 48IX. FATE OR CHANCE?
  49. 49part of the boat, Pedgift Junior rose and followed him. “You’re a very
  50. 50X. THE HOUSE-MAID’S FACE.
  51. 51part of the letter at which he looked back was the closing part of it.
  52. 52XI. MISS GWILT AMONG THE QUICKSANDS.
  53. 53“DECIMUS BROCK.
  54. 54“L. G.”
  55. 55“MARIA OLDERSHAW.”
  56. 56XII. THE CLOUDING OF THE SKY.
  57. 57XIII. EXIT.
  58. 58THE END OF THE SECOND BOOK.
  59. 59BOOK THE THIRD.
  60. 60I. MRS. MILROY.
  61. 61II. THE MAN IS FOUND.
  62. 62III. THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY.
  63. 63“ANNE MILROY.”
  64. 64part of the street where Allan was waiting.
  65. 65IV. ALLAN AT BAY.
  66. 66“ALLAN ARMADALE.”
  67. 67“DAVID MILROY.”
  68. 68“DAVID MILROY.”
  69. 69V. PEDGIFT’S REMEDY.
  70. 70VI. PEDGIFT’S POSTSCRIPT.
  71. 71VII. THE MARTYRDOM OF MISS GWILT.
  72. 72VIII. SHE COMES BETWEEN THEM.
  73. 73IX. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH.
  74. 74“FELIX BASHWOOD.”
  75. 75“ALLAN ARMADALE.
  76. 76“ROBERT STAPLETON.
  77. 77“L. G.”
  78. 78“MARIA OLDERSHAW.”
  79. 79X. MISS GWILT’S DIARY.
  80. 80part them for good and all.
  81. 81XI. LOVE AND LAW.
  82. 82XII. A SCANDAL AT THE STATION.
  83. 83“A WELL-WISHER.”
  84. 84XIII. AN OLD MAN’S HEART.
  85. 85“FELIX BASHWOOD.”
  86. 86“JAMES BASHWOOD.”
  87. 87XIV. MISS GWILT’S DIARY.
  88. 88“DECIMUS BROCK.”
  89. 89book, never to write in it, never to open it again.
  90. 90XV. THE WEDDING-DAY.
  91. 91“JAMES BASHWOOD.”
  92. 92THE END OF THE THIRD BOOK.
  93. 93BOOK THE FOURTH.
  94. 94I. MISS GWILT’S DIARY.
  95. 95II. THE DIARY CONTINUED.
  96. 96III. THE DIARY BROKEN OFF.
  97. 97THE END OF THE FOURTH BOOK.
  98. 98BOOK THE LAST.
  99. 99I. AT THE TERMINUS.
  100. 100chapter of accidents, I admit--if you choose to trust to it.
  101. 101II. IN THE HOUSE.
  102. 102part of it in which they had hitherto spoken to each other.
  103. 103III. THE PURPLE FLASK.
  104. 104EPILOGUE.
  105. 105I. NEWS FROM NORFOLK.
  106. 106II. MIDWINTER.
  107. 107APPENDIX.

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