Armadale
by Wilkie Collins
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Cuando el anciano Allan Armadale escribe su terrible confesión en el lecho de muerte, no puede ni imaginarse las repercusiones que tendrá esa carta cuando su hijo recién nacido la lea años después. Por segunda vez, dos hombres con el mismo nombre y el mismo apellido se verán implicados en la prosecución de una herencia que parece maldita. Mientras tanto, se suceden las sigilosas intrigas de Lydia Gwilt, un personaje misterioso y perverso que horrorizó a los lectores victorianos y que todavía hoy sobrecoge. Una mujer que llegó a ser definida por la crítica como "una de las villanas más curtidas". Con estos hilos y la complicidad del lector, el maestro Wilkie Collins teje una trama envolvente y seductora que brega entre identidades confusas, maldiciones heredadas, rivalidades amorosas, espionaje… y asesinatos.
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Classic Literature, Fate and fatalism, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Men, Mystery, Social life and customs, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fathers and sons, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Long Now Manual for CivilizationPlaces
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Armadale
2000, Ediciones B
Texto impreso
in Spanish
- 1a. ed. en esta colección.
8440696876 9788440696878
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Armadale
June 1977, Dover Pubns, Dover Publications [etc.], Constable
Paperback
in English and Swedish
- Reprint edition
0486234290 9780486234298
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"ON a warm May night, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the Reverend Decimus Brock-at that time a visitor to the Isle of Man-retired to his bedroom, at Castletown, with a serious personal responsibility in close pursuit of him, and with no distinct idea of the means by which he might relieve himself from the pressure of his present circumstances."
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"ON a warm May night, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the Reverend Decimus Brock-at that time a visitor to the Isle of Man-retired to his bedroom, at Castletown, with a serious personal responsibility in close pursuit of him, and with no distinct idea of the means by which he might relieve himself from the pressure of his present circumstances."
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