Name: La Nueva Magdalena (in Spanish)
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Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9788494911507

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Funambulista

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788494911507

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Nueva Magdalena (in Spanish)"

Mercy Merrick es una mísera muchacha de la calle, rechazada por la sociedad, que, tras fracasar en los numerosos intentos de rehabilitarse, decide marchar a Francia y trabajar de enfermera voluntaria en la guerra franco-alemana. Durante una batalla, conoce a Grace Roseberry, huérfana de un coronel británico, de camino a Inglaterra para convertirse en dama de compañía de una pariente noble y desconocida, lady Janet Roy. Cuando Grace perece a causa de un obús alemán, Mercy, tras muchas vacilaciones, decide suplantar la identidad de la fallecida valiéndose de los documentos de esta. A pesar de sus continuos remordimientos, la vida de Mercy parece tomar por fin un rumbo diferente: la noble dama la acoge calurosamente como hija adoptiva. El futuro parece sonreír a la impostora. Sin embargo, la visita del bondadoso y rebelde reverendo Julian Gray, sobrino de lady Roy, trae consigo una perturbadora sorpresa: ¡la verdadera Grace Roseberry tal vez no habría muerto! Wilkie Collins firma en este thriller, lleno de suspense y emociones, una de sus novelas de mayor crítica social sobre la condición femenina, al tiempo que ofrece un conmovedor retrato de una María Magdalena pecadora y redimida de los tiempos modernos.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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