The Black Robe (Pocket Classics) [Paperback]

Wilkie Collins (Author)

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Publication Date: May 1994 | Series: Pocket Classics

Lewis Romayne is a recluse, forced from his life of academic research by the dying call of an aunt in Paris. Subsequently involved in a duel, he returns a broken man, until he meets Stella Eyrecourt and marriage becomes a possibility. But a face from the past begins a battle for Romayne's soul.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750906545
• ISBN-13: 978-0750906548
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,092,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #35 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Collins, Wilkie

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2.0 out of 5 stars Victorian prejudice, February 18, 2000

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Francine Smith (Denver, CO, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Black Robe (Pocket Classics) (Paperback)

This book contains tiresome characters in an anti-catholic setting. For a Wilkie Collins book, it is absolutely dreadful. Still, it is a Collins book, so at least it is well written. A man and woman marry. A Jesuit, out to get the man's property, breaks up the marriage and succeeds in making everyone miserable, including the reader. While I had heard of the prejudice against Jews and Catholics in Victorian England, it never hit home until I read this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Victorian Soap Opera, May 8, 2011

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K. Wagner "Uniquely K" (Copperas Cove, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Black Robe (Kindle Edition)

I read this book on my Kindle from the Wilkie Collins Collection. Its not one of his greatest but it is a fine book. A young man suffering from an emotional shock is being manipulated by 2 groups. The first group is made up of friends who want to see him married. The second group is headed by a Catholic priest who wants to see the young man converted and return the Abbey* property back to the Church. [*Lands which were taken from the Church by Henry the VIII in the 16th century and given to the young man's family.] The 2 groups working against each other make the book humorous in the beginning. It only turns tragic later on with a somewhat happy ending.

It is one of Collin's shorter works and well worth reading. If this book was being written in modern times. A fictional cult would be created, but the Roman Catholic Church is useful for the plot because of its views on marriage and divorce.