Evil Genius

Evil Genius

by Wilkie Collins

Set in Victorian England, "Evil Genius" explores the complexities of family life and the hypocrisy of societal norms. The Linley family hires Sydney Westerfield as a governess, unaware of the dark secret she harbors. As the family becomes entangled in a web of deceit, Collins masterfully dissects the moral ambiguities of the era, questioning the true nature of good and evil.

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William Wilkie Collins  was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859), and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been called the first modern English detective novel. B...

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