Jezebel's Daughter: The sensational novel based on the play The Red Vial - Couverture souple

Collins, Wilkie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1494796260 ISBN 13 : 9781494796266

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was researching , while Mrs. Wagner is left with her husband's mental health institution reforms and his plans for hiring women along with men in his firm's offices. Mrs. Wagner believes in treating madmen gently, and requests for the funny little man Jack Straw to be released from the madhouse. At the same time, her nephew David Glenney is sent to the Frankfurt office, where he works with Mr Engelmann and Mr Keller. The Keller sun, Fritz, has fallen in love with Minna Fontaine, but the prospect of marriage is not being approved of by his father because Madame Fontaine is said to be in debt after her husband's death.

Biographie de l'auteur :

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1494796260
• ISBN 13: 9781494796266
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 430