The Evil Genius

by Wilkie Collins

Overview

There is literally no such thing as an evil genius, just a lot of depressed people who were not lucky enough to live in the 1800s. This is a historical family drama. A very abrupt end. It’s never quite clear who the evil genius is. But he certainly gave us a clear idea of just how devastating adultery can be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788382926941
Publisher:	Ktoczyta.pl
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	365
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	6 Years

About the Author

Graham Law is an associate professor of English Studies at Waseda University, Japan, and the author of Reading Contemporary English Fiction. He has also written extensively on nineteenth-century suspense novels and is the editor of two other Broadview Literary Texts editions: Hard Times and Great Expectations (with Adrian Pinnington).

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London

Table of Contents

Introduction

Footnotes
A Note on the Text
Selected Bibliography
William Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology

The Evil Genius

Appendix: Contemporary Documents
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

Released in 1886, Collins's Victorian soap opera focuses on Kitty Linley, a child whose father dies in disgrace and whose mother abandons her for another marriage. Kitty is tossed into a school where she, of course, is treated brutally. A governess is hired to raise her, but her stepfather falls for the woman, bringing yet more misery into the girl's life. Collins is always popular. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Collins’ boldness in drawing sympathetic portraits of both the wife and ‘the other woman’ is astonishingly modern. The novel well deserves to be brought back into print.” — Catherine Peters, Oxford University

From the Publisher

The husband-and-wife narrating team of Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir are perfect at navigating Wilkie Collins’s elaborate nineteenth-century prose. They also illuminate the work’s very contemporary empathy for its female characters. It all begins when an English noble returns home with a young governess for his daughter in tow. The husband falls in love. His wife is devastated. And his mother-in-law plots revenge. The staged reading of the play, performed only once before in 1885 to secure copyright, is a revelation showing how Collins emphasized voice and character to retell the novel. It features an energetic de Cuir in multiple roles. Of course, it’s left to the listener to decide who the “evil genius” truly was. B.P. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2022 - AudioFile