(DOWNLOAD) "Heart and Science - The Evil Genius - The Fallen Leaves" by Wilkie Collins * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Heart and Science - The Evil Genius - The Fallen Leaves
- Author : Wilkie Collins
- Release Date : January 04, 2016
- Genre: Romance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2422 KB
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Wilkie Collins. Book 7: 1. Heart And Science; 2. The Evil Genius; 3. The Fallen Leaves.
1. Heart And Science
Ovid Vere, a brilliant young doctor, is advised to take a long rest to save his health. His formidable mother, Mrs Gallilee, has remarried and he has two step-sisters, the precocious Maria aged 12 and Zoe (called Zo) aged 10, who is hopelessly bad at her lessons. The day before Ovid is due to go away he follows an attractive girl in the street to a concert which his mother also attends. The girl faints and is discovered to be Carmina Graywell, Mrs Gallilee's niece from Italy, accompanied by her old nurse, Teresa. Carmina's father, Robert, has just died leaving her to be brought up by Mrs Gallilee in London.
2. The Evil Genius
Novel by Wilkie Collins published in 1886, dedicated to William Holman Hunt, treating the related themes of divorce and child-custody.
After a traumatic childhood and youth, Sydney Westerfield is rescued from the drudgery of teaching in her aunt's school by becoming the governess of Kitty, only child of Herbert and Catherine Linley. Herbert and Sydney fall in love and matters are brought to a crisis by the meddling of Mrs Presty, Catherine Linley's mother. Sydney leaves the household but is brought back when Kitty becomes seriously ill, pining for her beloved governess. The situation deteriorates further and Catherine leaves her husband. To avoid custody of the child being given to Herbert, she goes into hiding with her mother and Kitty, obtaining a divorce under Scottish law. Kitty, however, is miserable. She misses her father and her governess - she is told her father is dead - and lacks companions because other children are not allowed to play with the child of divorced parents.
3. The Fallen Leaves
Wilkie Collins's novel was published in 1879 and dedicated to Caroline Graves.
The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another 'fallen leaves', who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past. Their histories are looked at from two perspectives: that of the ruthless capitalist society of England in which they live, and that of the Christian Socialism of the hero who has been brought up in a Utopian community in America.
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