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Lädt ... Monkton el loco (2010. Auflage)von Wilkie Collins
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Wilkie Collins est un grand nom de la littérature anglaise du siècle dernier, pardon, d’il y a deux siècles, maintenant… Mais je ne l’avais jamais lu. Alors j’ai pris le prétexte d’un livre un peu esseulé dans la boîte à livre en face de la mairie pour le découvrir, dans une œuvre mineure, certes, mais c’est parfois une bonne façon d’aborder un auteur. Monkton le Fou est un roman gothique tout ce qu’il y a de plus classique de par sa facture et son sujet. Un homme qui vit sous le coup d’une prophétie lugubre qui prédit la fin de sa lignée, et qui, par ce qu’il y croit, permettra qu’elle se réalise. Une lecture facile et rapide, qui était ce dont j’avais besoin ou envie à ce moment-là. Je ne suis pas une grande amatrice du genre, si bien que cette lecture ne me laissera pas un grand souvenir, sinon que maintenant je peux dire que j’ai lu Wilkie Collins ! Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the best-selling creator of the vogue for `sensation fiction' in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length novel. In particular, he produced a stream of often brillant and original short stories. Adapting thetradition of the Gothic tale of terror, he wrote ghost stories with a distinctively contemporary flavour and also made a major contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective story.This volume has a substantial and informative introduction which places the stories in the context of Collins's career and the Victorian literary scene. It brings together samples of his work from three decades and demonstrates that as a purveyor of mystery, suspense, and the uncanny, as achronicler of the dark underside of everyday life in the mid-Victorian period, and as a story-teller who quickly seizes the reader's interest and refuses to let go, Collins has few rivals. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I listened to this book as an entry in [Fifteen Great Novellas]. It is a very Victorian story, involving ghosts, family curses, romance, and the Catholic (gasp!) Church. The main character, Monkton, is currently the last of his line, and believes that he must find his uncle's body and return it to the family vault or he will permanently be the last Monkton. His uncle has died in an illegal duel near Naples, which is where most of the story takes place.
It was very well read, but because the reader is a woman, it took me a long time to realize the narrative character was male. Silly me, there were lots of clues that Collins' contemporaries would have registered immediately. ( )