Mari et Femme: Tome II

Par Wilkie Collins

La jeune Anne Sylvester est la fille de l'épouse déchue d'un gentleman anglais. Anne est recueillie par la meilleure amie de sa mère quand celle-ci décède, et devient la préceptrice de sa fille, Blanche. Une amitié très forte lie les deux jeunes femmes. Mais alors que le bonheur semble promis à toutes deux, le destin s'acharne sur Anne: elle s'est éprise d'un jeune homme de bonne famille qui, pour la séduire lui promet le mariage alors qu'il ne pense qu'à une jeune et riche veuve...
Ce roman plein d'humour et riche en rebondissements, est l'occasion pour Wilkie Collins de dénoncer les lois du mariage dans le Royaume-Uni en cette fin du XIXe siècle, qui n'accordent aucun droit aux femmes.
 

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Les Classiques
• Date de sortie: 12 janv. 2020
• ISBN: 9788835360025

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.