Blind Love (Broadview Literary Texts) - Softcover

Wilkie Collins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155111447X ISBN 13: 9781551114477

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2003

Synopsis

Blind Love is Wilkie Collins's final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the "wild" Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish secret society, and becomes unhappily drawn into a conspiracy plot.The Broadview edition of Blind Love includes a critical introduction and primary source materials that address the novel's focus on movements for Irish independence. Appendices include newspaper accounts of Ireland during the Land War and of the fraud case on which Collins based his story, articles reacting to Collins's sudden death, Punch cartoons depicting the English attitudes toward the Irish, and contemporary reviews.

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Review:

"This edition of Collins's Blind Love offers the best of modern scholarship--it is impossible to praise it too much. Professors Bachman and Cox add considerably to Broadview's series of reasonably-priced fine scholarly editions." -- A.D. Hutter, UCLA

From the Publisher:

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 155111447X
• ISBN 13: 9781551114477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350