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What if the person you trust most is the danger you cannot see?
In Blind Love, a woman's trust stands at the heart of a story where passion, secrets, and danger meet. Wilkie Collins brings romance and crime into an English setting, tying matters of the heart to money and political conspiracy. Love offers a reason to believe, but it can also make doubt feel impossible.
Behind the love story lies the troubled world of Irish unrest and the hidden motives that feed suspense. This is Collins's last novel, a sensation story in which private feelings meet wider dangers. Its central question is intimate and unsettling: what does a woman risk when she gives her trust where she should doubt?
What you’ll discover
- Trust under pressure Follow a love story that asks how deeply affection can cloud a person's judgment.
- Secrets close to home Enter an English world where private feelings become entangled with hidden motives and danger.
- The pull of money Discover how matters of money complicate a story already charged with passion and uncertainty.
- A darker political thread Trace the conspiracy behind the romance, set against the tensions of Irish unrest.
- Collins's final novel Explore his last story, where love and trust become questions full of danger.
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For readers who love Victorian mysteries, plots built on secrets, and the final work of a familiar author, with love, political conspiracy and money woven into suspense.
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- Love that cannot see the danger
- Conspiracy and money in the background
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Amore cieco
by Wilkie Collins; Walter Besant · 1890
A young woman's love draws her into danger as political conspiracy and money put her trust at stake.
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A sensation novel built on secrets
Collins made his name in the 1860s with novels such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone. These books took crime and hidden motives out of far-off castles and put them in respectable English homes. Readers of the time found that thrilling, and a little shocking. Blind Love follows the same habit.
In a sensation novel, the ordinary world has a crack in it. A pleasant house, a good marriage or a sound business can hide a dangerous secret. Collins liked to start with calm surfaces and let the pressure rise by small steps. Each chapter tends to add a doubt, a missing fact or a hint of trouble ahead.
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What is Blind Love by Wilkie Collins about?
It is a Victorian suspense novel about a young woman whose love draws her into danger. Political conspiracy and money problems lie behind the romance, and the story builds through secrets and growing doubt.
Did Wilkie Collins finish Blind Love?
No. Collins died in 1889 with the novel unfinished. His friend Walter Besant completed it, working from Collins's plans and notes, and it appeared in weekly installments in an illustrated London paper.
Is Blind Love a true story?
It is a work of fiction, written in the late 1880s. Like much of Collins's work, it draws on real concerns of its day, such as political unrest and the tricks people use to get money.
The author
Wilkie Collins
1824–1889 · English mystery novelist
Wilkie Collins was a British novelist and playwright born in London in 1824. He lived mainly in London and died there in 1889. His novels include The Woman in White (1859–1860), The Moonstone (1868), The Law and the Lady (1875), and The Black Robe (1881).
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