基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：752 页
出版日期：1995年10月
ISBN：0140434119
条形码：9780140434118
版本：New
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：阿玛代尔

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When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, romantic rivalries, espionage, money - and murder. The character of Lydia Gwilt horrified contemporary critics, with one reviewer describing her as 'One of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction'. She remains among the most enigmatic and fascinating women in nineteenth-century literature and the dark heart of this most sensational of Victorian 'sensation novels'.
作者简介 Catherine Peters is Lecturer in English at Somerville College and author of Thackeray's Universe (1987) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.