The evil genius
a domestic story
by Wilkie Collins
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Unlike his usual style, this is a novel of conscience, without much melodrama; Collins weaves a story of what he delicately calls "sexual frailty." Trapped in an adulterous union, neither of two involved are happy in it. The husband has been divorced by his wife, and she has sole custody of their child. Now she is being courted by another man, and has almost decided to marry him.
Not surprisingly, it was commercially most profitable, while inviting the disapprobation of Victorian society for its themes of adultery, divorce, custodial battles and women's rights.
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Mystery, Fiction, Fiction, general, Social conditions, Women, Social role, History, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, family life, general, Married people, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Divorced people, fiction, Teachers, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Children of divorced parents, Divorce, Remarried people, Governesses, Social life and customsPlaces
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"NOT far from the source of the famous river, which rises in the mountains between Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond, and divides the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, travellers arrive at the venerable grey walls of Mount Morven; and, after consulting their guide books, ask permission to see the house."
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