Armadale

"We are in a period of diseased invention, and the coming phase of it may be palsy. Mr. Collins belongs to the class of professing satirists who are eager to lay bare the 'blotches and bains' which fester beneath the skin and taint the blood of humanity....This time the interest of his tale centers upon one of the most hardened female villains whose devices and desires have ever blackened fiction--a forger, a convicted adulteress, murderess, and thief, aged thirty-five...."Collins, Wilkie is the author of 'Armadale', published 1995 under ISBN 9780140434118 and ISBN 0140434119.