E The Evil Genius A Domestic Story Wilkie Collins
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The Evil Genius

A Domestic Story

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  1. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Trial

    14:24

  2. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Sentence

    5:40

  3. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Letter

    5:54

  4. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Garret

    6:56

  5. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Landlord

    3:47

  6. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Brute

    9:37

  7. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Cipher

    5:51

  8. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Diamonds

    7:54

  9. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The Mother

    9:16

  10. Before the Story - Miss Westerfield's Education - The School

    13:59

  11. First Book - Chapter I - Mrs. Presty Presents Herself

    10:26

  12. First Book - Chapter II - The Governess Enters

    7:43

  13. First Book - Chapter III - Mrs. Presty Changes Her Mind

    15:16

  14. First Book - Chapter IV - Randal Receives His Correspondence

    4:48

  15. First Book - Chapter V - Randal Writes to New York

    7:45

  16. First Book - Chapter VI - Sydney Teaches

    6:38

  17. First Book - Chapter VII - Sydney Suffers

    10:18

  18. First Book - Chapter VIII - Mrs. Presty Makes a Discovery

    15:29

  19. First Book - Chapter IX - Somebody Attends to the Door

    25:35

  20. First Book - Chapter X - Kitty Mentions Her Birthday

    17:08

  21. First Book - Chapter XI - Linley Asserts His Authority

    10:34

  22. First Book - Chapter XII - Two of Them Sleep Badly

    9:12

  23. First Book - Chapter XIII - Kitty Keeps Her Birthday

    18:15

  24. First Book - Chapter XIV - Kitty Feels the Heartache

    12:46

  25. Second Book - Chapter XV - The Doctor

    7:11

  26. Second Book - Chapter XVI - The Child

    8:14

  27. Second Book - Chapter XVII - The Husband

    17:28

  28. Second Book - Chapter XVIII - The Nursemaid

    5:15

  29. Second Book - Chapter XIX - The Captain

    11:33

  30. Second Book - Chapter XX - The Mother-in-Law

    6:24

  31. Second Book - Chapter XXI - The Governess

    10:54

  32. Third Book - Chapter XXII - Retrospect

    4:48

  33. Third Book - Chapter XXIII - Separation

    6:34

  34. Third Book - Chapter XXIV - Hostility

    9:50

  35. Third Book - Chapter XXV - Consultation

    21:13

  36. Third Book - Chapter XXVI - Decision

    15:00

  37. Third Book - Chapter XXVII - Resolution

    10:37

  38. Fourth Book - Chapter XXVIII - Mr. Randal Linley

    7:47

  39. Fourth Book - Chapter XXIX - Mr. Sarrazin

    19:05

  40. Fourth Book - Chapter XXX - The Lord President

    15:55

  41. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXI - Mr. Herbert Linley

    13:52

  42. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXII - Miss Westerfield

    13:29

  43. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXIII - Mrs. Romsey

    14:54

  44. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXIV - Mrs. Presty

    12:20

  45. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXV - Captain Bennydeck

    21:58

  46. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXVI - Mr. and Mrs. Herbert

    19:09

  47. Fourth Book - Chapter XXXVII - Mrs. Norman

    15:51

  48. Fifth Book - Chapter XXXVIII - Hear the Lawyer

    7:07

  49. Fifth Book - Chapter XXXIX - Listen to Reason

    11:11

  50. Fifth Book - Chapter XL - Keep Your Temper

    12:26

  51. Fifth Book - Chapter XLI - Make the Best of It

    11:13

  52. Fifth Book - Chapter XLII - Try to Excuse Her

    16:50

  53. Fifth Book - Chapter XLIII - Know Your Own Mind

    11:39

  54. Fifth Book - Chapter XLIV - Think of Consequences

    13:59

  55. Fifth Book - Chapter XLV - Love Your Enemies

    13:19

  56. Fifth Book - Chapter XLVI - Nil Desperandum

    12:15

  57. Fifth Book - Chapter XLVII - Better Do It Than Wish It Done

    14:56

  58. Fifth Book - Chapter XLVIII - Be Careful!

    11:54

  59. Fifth Book - Chapter XLIX - Keep the Secret

    14:14

  60. Fifth Book - Chapter L - Forgiveness to the Injured Doth Belong

    7:31

  61. Fifth Book - Chapter LI - Dum Spiro, Spero

    9:14

  62. Fifth Book - Chapter LII - L'homme propose, et Dieu dispose

    15:33

  63. Fifth Book - Chapter LIII - The Largest Nature, the Longest Love

    11:29

  64. Fifth Book - Chapter LIV - Let Bygones Be Bygones

    12:28

  65. Fifth Book - Chapter LV - Leave It to the Child

    18:35

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The opening jury room in Wilkie Collins's 1886 domestic novel is crowded with distractions. Roderick Westerfield, a ship captain, faces accusations of deliberately losing his vessel for insurance money and taking diamonds from the cargo. The foreman reviews his naval career, family connections and gambling debts while other jurors interrupt, sketch pictures or worry about dinner. Their exchanges make the process of judging another person's conduct both serious and sharply comic.

Later, the pressure moves into a cottage where Mrs. Linley seeks legal advice about divorce and keeping her child, Kitty. Mr. Sarrazin explains the danger of proceedings over the child while two men watch the gate. Mrs. Presty's forceful comments interrupt his efforts to arrange a way forward. Family loyalties, servants' trustworthiness and the limits of legal protection give readers a close view of domestic life under strain.

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Wilkie Collins

Collins wrote The Woman in White for Dickens's magazine and then The Moonstone, which is usually called the first English detective novel and gave the form Sergeant Cuff, the country-house theft and the unreliable multiple narration.

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Pages
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