No Name

Name: No Name
Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9781909904330

Author: Wilkie Collins
Series: Classic Sensation
Language: English
Length: 628 pages
ISBN: 9781909904330
Published: 15 September 2013
Imprint: Fractal Press

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romantic
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murder
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Description

No Name by Wilkie Collins is a classic Victorian novel which employs a variety of narrative techniques to explore the socio-cultural underpinnings of the 19th century. Through its examination of gender roles and familial conventions, Collins illustrates how law and society can marginalize individuals within a given construct. In addition, the novel serves as an exploration of what it means to be an individual in a world where one's identity is so closely tied to their name.

Author

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. Collins made significant contribution towards development of the sensation novel, which focused on tales woven around criminal biographies. It also drew on the gothic and romantic genres of fiction. Typically the sensation novel focused on shocking subject matter including adultery, theft, kidnapping, insanity, bigamy, forgery, seduction and murder.

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