The gift book "Husband and Wife" by Wilkie Collins, in 2 volumes

The name of the English writer Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is rightfully inextricably linked with his famous novel "Moonstone", where he actually acted as one of the founders of the detective genre, inventing plot moves that will later become traditional for detective novels. In the shadow of this high-profile achievement, another hypostasis of Collins remained - a friend of Charles Dickens and a wonderful novelist and life writer. Husband and Wife, Collins' ninth novel, was published in 1870. Not only a great writer, but also a lawyer by training, describing the intricacies of the relationship between Anna Sylvester, Blanche Lundy, Jeffrey Delamaine and Arnold Brinkworth, Wilkie Collins creates a ruthless description of his era, where, entering into a marriage union, the spouse finds herself hostage to the norms imposed by law.