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- Title: Antonina, or the Fall of Rome (Original 1850 Edition)
- Author : Wilkie Collins
- Release Date : January 24, 2015
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 26527 KB
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Antonina was Collins's first revealed novel, dedicated to lady Chantrey, wife of William Collins's friend, the sculptor Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1791-1841). Antonina was begun in april 1846, delayed for a year throughout the writing of The Memoirs of William Collins, R.A., and revealed in 1850. it is written in a laborious, deliberately flamboyant vogue victimization detail from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the empire and modelled on Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). The plot is challenging, with several passages reading sort of a cross between a guide book to ancient Rome (based on Collins's visit in 1837) and an outline of his father's paintings. different sections, significantly the a lot of horrific and violent, square measure vividly written and there square measure already indications of Collins's interest in physical handicap and abnormal states of mind, and his dislike of all varieties of extremism. The conflict between the ingenious and inventive Antonina and her stern father is reworked to higher impact in Collins's next novel, Basil. Antonina received sensible reviews, sold consistently and was reprinted throughout Collins's period and well into the twentieth century.
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