No Name in Never too Late to Read Classics

Apr 11, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: victorians, british-literature, fiction-19th-century, e-books, mtbr-challenge-2013, gothic-romance, read-2013

One of the few novels which treats deeply the stigma of illegitimacy in the Victorian times.

This is the story of the Vanstone family. After their father's death in a local train crash followed by their mother's death in childbirth, the two sisters, Norah and Magdalen, the girls discovered that their parents that their parents have only been married a few months and the wedding invalidated their will.

They are forced then to face life by their own way with the help of their loyal governess Miss Ga ...more

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Sep 28, 2020 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing

No Name is my third read of a Wilkie Collins novel. I began with The Moonstone and loved it, then I read The Woman In White and adored that one and now I've just finished the massive 741 page roller-coaster ride of No Name and I am speechless. There were times in the middle where I actually thought this was a weak novel compared to the others, because I saw plainly where it was heading, but then it took a turn that I didn't see and wow! That last dip took my breath and had my emotions hanging on ...more

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Sep 23, 2020 Annette rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-read, kindled-kobo, 2020

Twisting and turning, slowly told at times. Finishes with a bang. The serial version of this story was published over 9 months months-more time than it took me to read even as slowly as I did- I can imagine the sales of All the Year Round and Harper’s Weekly benefited greatly from the inclusion of No Name.

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