No Name by Wilkie Collins (good books for 7th graders TXT) ๐
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No Name is set in England during the 1840s. It follows the fortunes of two sisters, Magdalen Vanstone and her older sister Norah. Their comfortable upper-middle-class lives are shockingly disrupted when, after the sudden deaths of their parents, they discover that they are disinherited and left without either name or fortune. The headstrong Magdalen vows to recover their inheritance, by fair means or foul. Her increasing desperation makes her vulnerable to a wily confidence trickster, Captain Wragge, who promises to assist her in return for a cut of the profits.
No Name was published in serial form like many of Wilkie Collinsโ other works. They were tremendously popular in their time, with long queues forming awaiting the publication of each episode. Though not as well known as his The Woman in White and The Moonstone, No Name is their equal in boasting a gripping plot and strong women characters (a rarity in the Victorian era). Collinsโ mentor Charles Dickens is on record as considering it to be far the superior of The Woman in White.
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She looked up, still clinging to him as she clung to the hope of her better life to come.
โTell me the truth!โ she repeated.
โWith my own lips?โ
โYes!โ she answered, eagerly. โSay what you think of me with your own lips.โ
He stooped and kissed her.
ColophonNo Name
was published in 1862 by
Wilkie Collins.
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