Man and wife
By: Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by Norman Page.
Contributors: Page, Norman.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780199538171
Subjects: Married women -- Fiction; Bigamy -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Man and Wife combines the fast pace and sensational plot structure of Collins's most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian Britain. At its center is the plight of a woman who fears that the archaic marriage laws of Scotland and Ireland may have forced her into committing unintentional bigamy. As the novel progresses, the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister when the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.