#ozias midwinter

[chiropteracupola]

So I Have Started Reading Armadale.

[ginevralinton]

The simple fact of the matter was that while Allan had decided as easily as he chose to take afternoon tea, for Ozias it was as complex and as significant as unpicking the intricacies of the law or dwelling on life’s existential questions.

or

in which Allan and Ozias have to make a decision about the gardens at Thorpe-Ambrose.

(ohhhhh some niche classic lit fic that no one asked for)

(yes, this is the fourth fic in like, three days. idk what’s going on. i’m one step away from editing up and sharing such a niche and embarrassing thing so i should probably stop)

[filmnoiress]

favourite characters from things you watched and read in 2023?

this is so late so we're going into 2024 as well and i'm too tired to make a little blurb for each of these characters so

the blood of gods augustus, gereon rath, dr. schmidt, edgar kasabian, kriemhild, paul orlac, balduin 1926, the lodger, jonathan and arabella strange, ozias midwinter, charlie newton and charles oakley, james allen, tony and cesca camonte, ben hawkins, mikhail polyakov, gavin strick, raymond shaw, steven lake, dave bowman, movie dennis guilder, brian brain damage, the hollow crown, charlie gordon, the hollow crown margaret of anjou, the hollow crown henry vi, nigel colbie, sister narcisa, sister clodagh, angela chiaromonte and giovanni severini, jean waddington ted larabee and kitty flanders, nan cooley and the kid, liuda kolia and volodia, penny and jerry day, ann mitchell and john willoughby, madeleine short and neil parker, lota the panther woman, paul renard, caesar from conquest of the planet of the apes, jess mccready, the man with no name, sister sara and hogan, bob seward, the high plains drifter, chuncho muños, father clark, columba and paco román, brig anderson he was persecuted more than jesus, charles campbell, roberta alden clyde griffiths and sondra finchley, the regeneration owen, inga and paul

[frimleyblogger]

Book Corner – January 2019 (4)

Book Corner – January 2019 (4)

Armadale – Wilkie Collins

This isn’t a book for the faint-hearted.

At over eight hundred pages long it is a bit of a doorstep and there are points in the book where it gets a bit turgid but it is well worth persevering with. It is Collins’ longest work, serialised in the Cornhill magazine between November 1864 and June 1866 before being published as a two-volume novel in 1866. It is considered…

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

my dad just asked me what I’m reading and I’m reading Armadale by Wilkie Collins which is a sensation novel from the 1860s so it’s a dramatic convoluted plot so I had to be like “okay so there are these two men named Allan Armadale and one of them kind of steals that other’s identity and would-be-wife so the other one kills that one, but they both had sons, both named Allan Armadale, and the murderer Allan Armadale sends a secret letter to his son Allan Armadale telling him to stay away from the other Allan Armadale, but before getting that letter Allan Armadale (who’s going by Ozias Midwinter) has become BOYFRIENDS with the other Allan Armadale and then when he gets the letter he’s like oh I can’t tell him that my father killed his father, and then there’s a prophetic dream and he’s like oh no if I don’t leave him I’m going to cause his downfall and - ”

[charmed-and-alarmed]

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING BC I NEED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BOOK.

So, the first chapters of the book "Armadale" by Wilkie Collins may be one of the greatest things I've ever read. It is life changing.

At the beginning, you learn about a guy named Alan Something - his last name is irrelevant bc as a young man, his uncle/godfather sends him a letter saying "sorry I've literally never spoken to you (even tho you're named after me) but stuffs happened and it turns out my son is absolute garbage. So he's disinherited, but now ive got all this land and money I have to leave to someone. Any interest in changing your name to Armadale and being my heir?"

Alan is no fool, so he agrees, even tho this means that he has the same name as his uncle now, what with him already getting the name Alan from him. Speed ahead a bit - Alan Armadale makes a friend and has this plan to go away and meet a woman he's decided he's fallen in love with. But alas, he is struck by a sudden illness (or something) and when he recovers, he finds out that this friend of his has gone in his place, marrying the woman while pretending to be Alan Armadale!

If you are thinking that this sounds like a pretty typical plot idea, you are wrong my friend, bc here's the thing: this friend of his is Alan Armadale.

This friend was not his friend at all - well, he wasn't in the sense that he betrayed our Alan Armadale, but also in the sense that he was actually his cousin! Yes, the cousin that his uncle had disinherited! seems he forgot to mention when he made our Alan Armadale his heir that his former heir was ALSO named Alan Armadale. And, as we all know, There Can Only Be One - in this case, our Alan Armadale takes advantage of a bit of misadventure at sea and locks his cousin/exfriend/cousin/rival in a sinking ship. Oops

BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE GUYS. The Alan Armadale's don't stop there - oh no. Bc the deceased cousin!Alan Armadale has a son, also named Alan Armadale. Then our (living) Alan Armadale has a son, who he honestly tries to give a different name to but his wife is all "I named him after you dear" and the poor guy is like "... That's great [internal screaming]" and there's another Alan Armadale. This means that there are STILL TWO ALAN ARMADALES running around

Now our (not dead) Alan Armadale writes a letter for his son to read when he's older that explains this whole thing, and he makes it VERY CLEAR that the two Alan Armadales can NEVER meet. It's heavily implied the universe will implode on itself if the two are ever in the same room. But I bet you can see where this is going: at age 16, a young boy named Alan Armadale living with his loving, slightly clingy mother meets another young man his age. And who is this new young man, you ask? Well, he introduces himself as Ozias Midwinter.

Ozias Midwinter. Ozias. Midwinter.

We all know it's actually the other Alan Armadale, but this dude decides to go by the name Ozias Midwinter. It is a choice he has made, in part bc of that letter about his dad murdering his cousin and how he could never meet the other Alan Armadale etc etc, but STILL. Ozias Midwinter. Guys, I can't.

Oh and Alan Armadale decides that Ozias Midwinter is his new best friend, rejecting every attempt Ozias Midwinter makes to keep them apart. Bc of COURSE. And there's that estate that our old Alan Armadale changed his name to inherit - turns out it's been left to his own son, who is also named Alan Armadale. Except there are two Alan Armadales, both of whom can claim to be the heir. And only Ozias Midwinter knows that he himself is kind of the rightful heir.

This is all within the first like, 3 chapters guys. A whole book is still going to happen: this is the BACKSTORY. I fucking love this book.

[biblioncollection]

Armadale | Wilkie Collins | General Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 1/19 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter." Summary from wikipedia). This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

[locuradelibrosblog]

#HoyRecomendamos 📚📖♥️ ARMADALE de #WilkieCollins y @albaeditorial ¡Un autor y una editorial que me encanta! Este en especial viene en edición de lujo (qué quita el sentido y que ya tiene un sitio especial en mi biblioteca) 👉Lo podéis encontrar en la @ferialibromadrid en la CASETA 262 de la editorial ♥️ #Armadale #AlbaEditorial El viejo Allan Armadale, plantador de las Antillas, confiesa por escrito en su lecho de muerte un horrible secreto que solo debe conocer su hijo cuando cumpla la mayoría de edad. Veinte años después, este hijo mulato se hace llamar Ozias Midwinter, es melancólico y, después de una vida atribulada y sin afecto, encuentra por fin un amigo: un joven impulsivo y cordial, amante del mar y libre de preocupaciones, que hereda inesperadamente una gran fortuna. Pero la revelación del secreto causa un enorme sufrimiento, complicado por la intervención de una hermosa pelirroja de oscuro pasado, la señorita Lydia Gwilt, que, con sus maquinaciones y falta de escrúpulos, está dispuesta a sembrar el caos por allí donde pasa: «He demostrado ­­se jacta en una ocasión­– que yo no soy yo». Antítesis de la redimible «mujer caída» victoriana, rebelde a toda sumisión, azote de la respetabilidad y el sentimentalismo, este personaje es sin duda una de las mayores creaciones de Wilkie Collins y el motor de una endiablada trama de codicia, acoso, suplantación y asesinato. De la ciudad balneario de Wildbad a la agreste isla de Man, de Madeira al laberíntico Londres, de los lagos de Norfolk a la soleada Nápoles, Armadale (1864-1866), que aquí presentamos en traducción de @josecvales ♥️, va de lo onírico a lo real, de lo patético a lo cómico sin conceder apenas un respiro al lector. El mero nombre de Armadale, signo de legitimidad, herencia y poder, es también como una palabra mágica, a veces una maldición y otras un encanto. «Como todas las novelas de Collins ­–dijo T. S. Eliot–, tiene el inmenso (y cada día más raro) mérito de no ser nunca aburrida.» #RecomendacionesDeLectura #FLM2021 #EncuentrosZomClubDeLecturaLL #ClubDeLectura #ClubDeLecturaLL #EncuentrosConEscritoresLL #PromociónDeLibros #PromociónDeLibrosLL #PepaEntreLibros #LocuraDeLibros (en Feria del Libro de Madrid) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUKVi3ADa4B/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dreaminginsteadofsleeping42]

List of Classic Brit Lit Characters Who Are Probably Gay:

Alan Armadale & Ozias Midwinter (Wilkie Collins’ Armadale)

Shirley Keeldar & Caroline Helstone (Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley)

[ginevralinton]

Ohhhhhh Grace finally writes something and it’s very niche niche classic lit fic ;) Anyway, if anyone out there wants to read an Armadale fanfic, here you go.

[ginevralinton]

Thank you @thelastplantagenet for the tag!!

Rules: post the last seven sentences from one of your WIPs! i’m not going to say it has to be the absolute last seven sentences you’ve written - just from something you’re still working on

(I’m sorry I don’t have any Ghosts WIPs, but it was either this or some original stuff, so you got the beginning of an Armadale thing. Sorry for any mistakes and if this is more than seven. I cannot count.)

It was already late in the day and a decision was yet to be made. Neither Ozias nor Allan had anticipated such difficulty in coming to any resolution on the subject, but here they were, no closer to having reached a conclusion than they had been when the sun had risen over Thorpe Ambrose that morning. The simple fact of the matter was that while Allan had decided as easily as he chose to take mid-afternoon tea, for Ozias it was as complex and as significant as unpicking the intricacies of the law or dwelling on life’s existential questions. Such were their characters and such thinking seeped into all of their decision making, whether that be in choosing between strawberry or apricot jam or deciding whether or not to embark on a new and perilous career. Allan and Ozias had grown accustomed to meeting each other somewhere in the middle, however, there were naturally cases in which stalemates were reached and today was such a case.

             ‘But my dear Midwinter,’ Allan entreated, ‘my heart is quite set on the wildflowers. Just think of it – our very own meadow –  the wildness of it, the butterflies, the bees. Oh, we could have a beehive, our own honey – imagine - I could go in to beekeeping!

tagging @thatgordongirl and @sonnet-of-anarchy if you want to share - no pressure :)

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Armadale | Wilkie Collins | General Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 2/19 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter." Summary from wikipedia). This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

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Armadale | Wilkie Collins | General Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 3/19 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter." Summary from wikipedia). This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

[biblioncollection]

Armadale | Wilkie Collins | General Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 4/19 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter." Summary from wikipedia). This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

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Armadale | Wilkie Collins | General Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 5/19 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter." Summary from wikipedia). This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

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Armadale | Wilkie Collins | General Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 6/19 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter." Summary from wikipedia). This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks