Author: Collins, Wilkie
Title: Armadale. A Novel. By Wilkie Collins. With Illustrations
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. 1866. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. 1866. Very good. THE ANTI-HEROINE, LYDIA GWILT, HAS BEEN CALLED "THE FIRST FEMME FATALE IN THE MODERN SENSE". - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The spine and title are faded and the edges rubbed. 320 pages, printed in 2 columns, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and illustrations throughout by G.H. Thomas. The pages are slightly darkened. Very good.

First American edition.

In an interview in "Cassell's Saturday Journal" of March 5, 1887, Collins indicates that "Armadale" was his own personal favorite of his novels.

It is a novel of fate, fraud and attempted murder. The story's heroes are born under a curse. Ozias Midwinter's father had murdered Allan Armadale's father. His illicit abortion clinic shut down by the police, a shady doctor sets up a private sanitarium with a system of pipes that allow him to keep his patients sedated.

The anti-heroine, Lydia Gwilt, has been called "the first femme fatale in the modern sense". Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; 19TH CENTURY; WILKIE COLLINS; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; FICTION; ILLUSTRATIONS; G.H. THOMAS; 1ST US EDITION; ARMADALE; LYDIA GWILT; ABORTION CLINIC; ANTI-HEROINE; FEMME FATALE; SANITARIUM; NINETEENTH CENTURY; FATE; FRAUD; MURDER; OZIAS MIDWINTER

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