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The yellow mask, Wilkie Collins

Label
The yellow mask, Wilkie Collins
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The yellow mask
Medium
electronic resource
Responsibility statement
Wilkie Collins
Summary
The Yellow Mask, a gothic romance filled with mystery and suspense that will hold you riveted from beginning to end. A scheming priest, Father Rocco of Pisa, decides the inheritance and great wealth of Count Fabio d'Ascoli was stolen from the church many generations ago and aims to steal it back. In order to do so, the priest manipulates Fabio's true love, the sweet model Nanina, to leave Pisa. ather Rocco then engineers a wedding between Fabio and his easily manipulated niece, the beautiful Maddelena. Poor Maddalena dies the next year in childbirth, and the priest is forced to alter his plan. He tries to drive Fabio mad by having a female henchman don a Yellow Mask and pretend to be the ghost of Maddalena. Fabio's only hope is his beloved Nanina. Can she save him?
Target audience
adult
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