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"No Name" was published at the peak of Wilkie Collins's career in 1862 and is considered one of his four major novels. Written between "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone", "No Name" was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers.
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. While the submissive Norah follows a path of duty and hardship as a governess, her high-spirited and rebellious younger sister has made other decisions. Determined to regain her rightful inheritance at any cost, Magdalen uses her unconventional beauty and dramatic talent in recklessly pursuing her revenge. Aided by the audacious swindler Captain Wragge, she braves a series of trials leading up to the climactic test: can she trade herself in marriage to the man she loathes?
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GenreRomance, General Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length29 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2THE FIRST SCENE. COMBE-RAVEN, SOMERSETSHIRE
3Chapter 1
4Chapter 2
5Chapter 3
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6Chapter 4
7Chapter 5
8Chapter 6
9Chapter 7
10Chapter 8
11Chapter 9
12Chapter 10
13Chapter 11
14Chapter 12
15Chapter 13
16Chapter 14
17Chapter 15
18BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST
191. From Norah Vanstone To Mr. Pendril
202. From Miss Garth To Mr. Pendril
213. From Magdalen To Norah (Inclosed In The Preceding Letter)
224. From Sergeant Bulmer (Of The Detective Police) To Mr. Pendril
235. Anonymous Letter Addressed To Mr. Pendril
24THE SECOND SCENE. SKELDERGATE, YORK
25Chapter 1
26Chapter 2
27Chapter 3
28BETWEEN THE SCENES. CHRONICLE OF EVENTS: PRESERVED IN CAPTAIN WRAGGE'S DISPATCH-BOX
291. Chronicle For October, 1846
302. Chronicle For November
313. Chronicle For December. First Fortnight
324. Chronicle For December. Second Fortnight
335. Chronicle For January, 1847
346. Chronicle For February
357. Chronicle For March
368. Chronicle For April And May
379. Chronicle For June
38THE THIRD SCENE. VAUXHALL WALK, LAMBETH
39Chapter 1
40Chapter 2
41Chapter 3
42Chapter 4
43BETWEEN THE SCENES. PROGRESS OF THE STORY THROUGH THE POST
441. Extract From The Advertising Columns Of "The Times."
452. From Captain Wragge To Magdalen
463. From Norah To Magdalen
474. From Miss Garth To Magdalen
485. From Francis Clare, Jun., To Magdalen
496. From Francis Clare, Sen., To Magdalen
507. From Mrs. Wragge To Her Husband