num_pages: 648
description: 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. -- Wilkie Collins
language: English
title: No Name
titlecomplete: No Name
characters: Francis Clare, Matilda Wragge, Harriet Garth, Magdalen Vanstone, William Pendril, Andrew Vanstone, Virginie Lecount, Robert Kirke, Norah Blake Vanstone, Norah Vanstone, Horatio Wragge, Noel Vanstone, George Bartram
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Gothic, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 9385
publisher: Wildside Pr