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by Wilkie Collins (Author), Catherine Peters (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; Reissue edition (28 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0199555613
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199555611
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 398,971 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, who is in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mysterious stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. Wilkie Collins's third novel, dedicated to his life-long friend Dickens, is a story in which excitement is combined with charm and humour. In its mixture of the everyday and the extraordinary, Hide and Seek forms a bridge between the domestic novel and the sensational fiction for which Collins later became famous.
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1.0 out of 5 stars didn't get through it, 28 Nov 2009
By Shouna Falconer - See all my reviews
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I shouldn't really be reviewing this novel. In fact there is no way that this is going to be a review because I didn't get very far with it. I am an avid Wilkie Collins fan, having loved all 4 of his well known works and also The Dead Secret. But I found this so turgid and boring that I gave up. I would just like to advise any other Wilkie Collins fans to give this one a miss, and anyone wishing to read one for the first time, to steer clear of this one as it would give the wrong impression of his books.
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2.0 out of 5 stars An unusual and weak novel, 14 July 2009
By Mr. T. Harvey "trevorbelmont2" (London) - See all my reviews
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Warning: this review contains spoilers

'Hide and Seek' is an early novel of Wilkie Collins published in 1854, written before he hit the big time with 'The Woman in White' in 1860.

A painter, Valentine Blyth, visits a circus where he is captivated by one of the performers, a deaf mute girl, whom he adopts. The plot of the novel concerns the girl's parentage and the efforts of one Mat Marksman to discover the whereabouts of the man who abandoned her mother before she was born.

One gets the sense of Collins feeling his way in this early novel and of trying to be different, almost experimental. In the first half, the narrative moves back and forth in time (one wonders whether he was influenced here by 'Wuthering Heights' which had only been published a few years previously) but this only serves to hold up the story. Each of the characters is delineated by an idiosyncrasy: Mr Thorpe the religious zealot, the neurotic Valentine Blyth who seems only to be able to form relationships with women who are in some way disabled (his bedridden wife and the deaf mute girl he adopts), the moody, saturnine Mat Marksman, the ebullient Zack Thorpe.

Certain aspects of the book do stretch credibility. Characters too often happen to be in the right place at the right time, whether it be in a drinking den, a graveyard or near a writing bureau. One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is the relationship between Blyth, his wife and Madonna. Because of the conventions of the time in which he was writing, Collins has to dissemble. Are Blyth and Madonna having a sexual relationship? Is Mrs Blyth aware of this? Or is Blyth asexual?

The strongest parts of this weak novel are the events concerning the discovery of Madonna's parentage. Collins comes into his own here and these sections of the book make for a good read.

Hide and Seek can really only be recommended to Collins' aficionados or to those lovers of the Victorian novel who have read all the top ranking ones and need to move on to those in the second rank.
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