Charnwood Library: The Black Robe (Hardcover)

from tess_schoolmarm

This was my second Collins book and I'm still trying to figure out why all the hype. This is the story of a very feeble minded (selfish in my opinion) man who has a nervous condition and is preyed upon by the Catholics to convert and hand over his estate to the Church. Of course, this entails lea...

from nordie

I realised part way through that I had read this book before but couldnt remember what happened. This is the story of a troubled man, whose life and soul are literally torn between his wife and the catholic priests who are attempting to convert him to Catholicism (in order to gain the lands he in...

from atimco

Not one of Wilkie Collins' better works. The characters are artificial and predictable, with the exception perhaps of the devious Father Benwell and to some extent Bernard Winterfield. Collins turns the pivotal moment of Jane Eyre on its head, with a false marriage revealed on the very steps of t...