No Name (Paperback, [New Ed.])

'Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance' Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The Moonstone. For its family secret - the Vanstone daughters' illegitimacy, their consequent disinheritance and fall from social grace - is revealed early on, and as Magdalen Vanstone struggles to reclaim her identity, the plot uncovers many a moral, social and legal skeleton in the cupboards of Victorian society. Mercurial and unscrupulous, Magdalen is Wilkie Collins's most exhilarating heroine, one of the rare subversives in Victorian fiction and a woman dazzlingly versatile in her powers of self-transformation. Through her, with great comic vigour, No Name exposes how social identity is constructed, and how it can be dismantled, buried, borrowed or invented.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1994
First published:	July 1995
Authors:	Wilkie Collins
Introduction by:	Mark Ford
Notes by:	Mark Ford
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	656
Edition:	[New Ed.]
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-043397-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-14-043397-X
Barcode:	9780140433975

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