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Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

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Number of Chapters: 31

Length: 15 hours and 36 minutes

Language: English

The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment in a traveling circus and adopts her, and mentors a young man who gets in trouble with his tyrannical father. The girl, who received the nickname ‚Madonna’, falls in love with the young man, Zack. Because one of Valentine’s biggest fears is that Madonna’s blood relations will one day trace her and take her away from his home, he keeps the little that he knows of her origins a strict secret. One day, Zack befriends a mysterious stranger, who has just returned from years of rough life in the American wilderness. From that moment, the plot thickens, in mid-19th century dramatic style.

This is Wilkie Collins’ third published novel (1854, read from the 1861 edition). Summary by Anna Simon

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Preface to the revised edition (Anna Simon)
Opening Chapter. A child's sunday (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter I. A new neighborhood, and a strange character (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter II. Mr. Blyth in his studio (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter III. Madonna's childhood (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter IV. Madonna's mother (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter V. Madonna's misfortune (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter VI. Madonna goes to London (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter VII. Madonna in her new home (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter VIII. Mentor and Telemachus (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter IX. The tribulations of Zack (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter X. Mr Blyth's drawing academy (Anna Simon)
Book I - Chapter XI. The brewing of the storm (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter I. The man with the black skull-cap (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter II. The prodigal's return (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter III. The search begun (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter IV. Fate works, with Zack for an instrument (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter V. Fate works, with Mr. Blyth for an instrument (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter VI. The finding of the clue (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter VII. The box of letters (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter VIII. Joanna Grice's narrative (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter IX. More discoveries (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter X. The squaw's mixture (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XI. The garden door (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XII. The hair bracelet (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XIII. The search for Arthur Carr (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XIV. Mary's grave (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XV. The discovery of Arthur Carr (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XVI. The day of reckoning (Anna Simon)
Book II - Chapter XVII. Matthew Grice's revenge (Anna Simon)
Closing Chapter. A year and a half afterwards (Anna Simon)
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