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A gripping sensation novel about inheritance, identity, illegitimacy, and revenge.

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No Name follows two sisters disinherited by a legal technicality and one woman’s brilliant, dangerous campaign to recover justice. Wilkie Collins combines social critique, theatrical disguise, legal suspense, and emotional intensity in a major Victorian sensation novel.

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Wilkie Collins died in 1889, and No Name was first published in 1862; these dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language English edition.

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Wilkie Collins

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The main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader’s interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and dead—but which has never been, and can never be, exhausted, because it is a subject eternally interesting to all mankind. Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known. It has been my aim to make the character of “Magdalen,” which personifies this struggle, a pathetic character even in its perversity and its error; and I have tried hard to attain this result by the least obtrusive and the least artificial of all means—by a resolute adherence throughout to the truth as it is in Nature. This design was no easy one to accomplish; and it has been a great encouragement to me (during the publication of my story in its periodical form) to know, on the authority of many readers, that the object which I had proposed to myself, I might, in some degree, consider as an object achieved.

Round the central figure in the narrative other characters will be found grouped, in sharp contrast—contrast, for the most part, in which I have endeavored to make the element of humor mainly predominant. I have sought to impart this relief to the more serious passages in the

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the laws of Art—but because experience has taught me (what the experience of my readers will doubtless confirm) that there is no such moral phenomenon as unmixed tragedy to be found in the world around us. Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.

To pass from the Characters to the Story, it will be seen that the narrative related in these pages has been constructed on a plan which differs from the plan followed in my last novel, and in some other of my works published at an earlier date. The only Secret contained in this book is revealed midway in the first volume. From that point, all the main events of the story are purposely foreshadowed before they take place—my present design being to rouse the reader’s interest in following the train of circumstances by which these foreseen events are brought about. In trying this new ground, I am not turning my back in doubt on the ground which I have passed over already. My one object in following a new course is to enlarge the range of my studies in the art of writing fiction, and to vary the form in which I make my appeal to the reader, as attractively as I can.

There is no need for me to add more to these few prefatory words than is here written. What I might otherwise have wished to say in this place, I have endeavored to make the book itself say for me.

_Harley Street, November_, 1862

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02PREFACE.
  3. 03book, not only because I believe myself to be justified in doing so by
  4. 04NO NAME.
  5. 05THE FIRST SCENE. COMBE-RAVEN, SOMERSETSHIRE.
  6. 06CHAPTER I.
  7. 07CHAPTER II.
  8. 08CHAPTER III.
  9. 09CHAPTER IV.
  10. 10CHAPTER V.
  11. 11part, and looking piteously in the faces of the friends about him. “I
  12. 12part and comfortably arrayed in her morning wrapper, until it was time
  13. 13CHAPTER VI.
  14. 14CHAPTER VII.
  15. 15CHAPTER VIII.
  16. 16CHAPTER IX.
  17. 17CHAPTER X.
  18. 18CHAPTER XI.
  19. 19CHAPTER XII.
  20. 20CHAPTER XIII.
  21. 21part. I next wrote to the mother to use her influence. She was herself
  22. 22“A. V.”
  23. 23CHAPTER XIV.
  24. 24CHAPTER XV.
  25. 25part from them when the time comes!”
  26. 26THE END OF THE FIRST SCENE.
  27. 27BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST.
  28. 28I.
  29. 29“DEAR MR. PENDRIL,—
  30. 30“NORAH VANSTONE.”
  31. 31II.
  32. 32“MY DEAR SIR,—
  33. 33“HARRIET GARTH.”
  34. 34III.
  35. 35“MY DARLING,—
  36. 36“MAGDALEN.”
  37. 37IV.
  38. 38“SIR,—
  39. 39“ABRAHAM BULMER.”
  40. 40V.
  41. 41“SIR,—
  42. 42THE SECOND SCENE. SKELDERGATE, YORK.
  43. 43CHAPTER I.
  44. 44“FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.”
  45. 45CHAPTER II.
  46. 46book the Buzzing in my head begins again. Who’s to make it out?
  47. 47part not to have thought of it before. We will resume our conversation
  48. 48CHAPTER III.
  49. 49BETWEEN THE SCENES. CHRONICLE OF EVENTS: PRESERVED IN CAPTAIN WRAGGE’S DESPATCH BOX.
  50. 50I.
  51. 51part are withdrawn—on the express understanding that this concession is
  52. 52II.
  53. 53III.
  54. 54IV.
  55. 55V.
  56. 56VI.
  57. 57VII.
  58. 58VIII.
  59. 59IX.
  60. 60THE THIRD SCENE. VAUXHALL WALK, LAMBETH.
  61. 61CHAPTER I.
  62. 62CHAPTER II.
  63. 63CHAPTER III.
  64. 64CHAPTER IV.
  65. 65THE END OF THE THIRD SCENE.
  66. 66BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST.
  67. 67I.
  68. 68II.
  69. 69“MY DEAR GIRL,
  70. 70III.
  71. 71“MY DEAREST MAGDALEN,
  72. 72“NORAH.”
  73. 73IV.
  74. 74“MY DEAR MAGDALEN,
  75. 75“HARRIET GARTH.”
  76. 76V.
  77. 77“MY DEAR MAGDALEN,
  78. 78VI.
  79. 79“F. C.”
  80. 80VII.
  81. 81VIII.
  82. 82IX.
  83. 83“MY DEAREST NORAH,
  84. 84“MAGDALEN.”
  85. 85“MY DEAR MISS GARTH,
  86. 86“MAGDALEN.”
  87. 87XI.
  88. 88“MAGDALEN.”
  89. 89XII.
  90. 90“MY DEAR GIRL,
  91. 91XIII.
  92. 92THE FOURTH SCENE. ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.
  93. 93CHAPTER I.
  94. 94part on the wedding-day. I don’t ask where you go: you don’t ask where
  95. 95CHAPTER II.
  96. 96CHAPTER III.
  97. 97CHAPTER IV.
  98. 98CHAPTER V.
  99. 99CHAPTER VI.
  100. 100CHAPTER VII.
  101. 101part of the smooth white surface of Miss Bygrave’s neck. It mutely
  102. 102CHAPTER VIII.
  103. 103CHAPTER IX.
  104. 104CHAPTER X.
  105. 105CHAPTER XI.
  106. 106part of the letter which could suggest to her mind the faintest
  107. 107“VIRGINIE LECOUNT.”
  108. 108CHAPTER XII.
  109. 109CHAPTER XIII.
  110. 110CHAPTER XIV.
  111. 111Book of Accounts, and made the closing entry—the entry of his last
  112. 112THE END OF THE FOURTH SCENE.
  113. 113BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST.
  114. 114I.
  115. 115II.
  116. 116“MY DEAR MISS GARTH,
  117. 117III.
  118. 118“SIR,
  119. 119IV.
  120. 120“MY DEAR MISS GARTH,
  121. 121V.
  122. 122“DEAR SIR,
  123. 123VI.
  124. 124“DEAR MADAM,
  125. 125VII.
  126. 126“MY DEAR MISS VANSTONE,
  127. 127VIII.
  128. 128“DEAR MR. PENDRIL,
  129. 129IX.
  130. 130“DEAR MADAM,
  131. 131X.
  132. 132“MY DEAR SIR,
  133. 133XI.
  134. 134“DEAR SIR,
  135. 135XII.
  136. 136“DEAR MISS GARTH,
  137. 137XIII.
  138. 138“DEAR MADAM,
  139. 139XIV.
  140. 140“DEAR SIR,
  141. 141THE FIFTH SCENE. BALIOL COTTAGE, DUMFRIES.
  142. 142CHAPTER I.
  143. 143CHAPTER II.
  144. 144CHAPTER III.
  145. 145“DEAR ADMIRAL BARTRAM,
  146. 146THE END OF THE FIFTH SCENE.
  147. 147BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST.
  148. 148I.
  149. 149II.
  150. 150“DEAR MADAM,
  151. 151III.
  152. 152“MAGDALEN VANSTONE.”
  153. 153IV.
  154. 154“DEAR MADAM,
  155. 155V.
  156. 156“DEAR MISS GARTH,
  157. 157VI.
  158. 158“DEAR MADAM,
  159. 159VII.
  160. 160“DEAR SIR,
  161. 161VIII.
  162. 162“DEAR MADAM,
  163. 163part which he has not thought proper openly to acknowledge in his will.
  164. 164IX.
  165. 165“DEAR SIR,
  166. 166THE SIXTH SCENE. ST. JOHN’S WOOD.
  167. 167CHAPTER I.
  168. 168CHAPTER II.
  169. 169THE END OF THE SIXTH SCENE.
  170. 170BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST.
  171. 171I.
  172. 172II.
  173. 173“DEAR MISS GARTH,
  174. 174III.
  175. 175“MRS. DRAKE,
  176. 176IV.
  177. 177“HONORED SIR,
  178. 178THE SEVENTH SCENE. ST. CRUX-IN-THE-MARSH.
  179. 179CHAPTER I.
  180. 180CHAPTER II.
  181. 181CHAPTER III.
  182. 182CHAPTER IV.
  183. 183“ARTHUR EVERARD BARTRAM.”
  184. 184THE END OF THE SEVENTH SCENE.
  185. 185BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST.
  186. 186I.
  187. 187II.
  188. 188“DEAR MISS GARTH,
  189. 189III.
  190. 190“DEAR MR. BARTRAM,
  191. 191“HARRIET GARTH.”
  192. 192IV.
  193. 193“SIR,
  194. 194“SOPHIA DRAKE.”
  195. 195V.
  196. 196“DEAR MISS GARTH,
  197. 197VI.
  198. 198“DEAR MADAM,
  199. 199VII.
  200. 200“DEAR MISS GARTH,
  201. 201VIII.
  202. 202“DEAR MADAM,
  203. 203IX.
  204. 204“SIR,
  205. 205X.
  206. 206“MADAM,
  207. 207“JOHN LOSCOMBE.”
  208. 208THE LAST SCENE. AARON’S BUILDINGS
  209. 209CHAPTER I.
  210. 210CHAPTER II.
  211. 211CHAPTER III.
  212. 212“MY DEAREST MAGDALEN,
  213. 213“MY DEAR CHILD,
  214. 214CHAPTER IV.

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