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The New Magdalen

by Wilkie Collins

Level C1 · AdvancedClassics32 chapters
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Length
32 chapters
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About this book

Amid the tense backdrop of the 1870 Franco-German war, a French captain and his surgeons guard a fragile victory in a secluded village cottage, where two Englishwomen find themselves drawn into the shadowy dangers of war and espionage.

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Contents

32 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CHAPTER I. THE TWO WOMEN.
03CHAPTER II. MAGDALEN—IN MODERN TIMES.
04CHAPTER III. THE GERMAN SHELL.
05CHAPTER IV. THE TEMPTATION.
06CHAPTER V. THE GERMAN SURGEON.
07SECOND SCENE.—Mablethorpe House.
08CHAPTER VI. LADY JANET’S COMPANION.
09CHAPTER VII. THE MAN IS COMING.
10CHAPTER VIII. THE MAN APPEARS.
11CHAPTER IX. NEWS FROM MANNHEIM.
12CHAPTER X. A COUNCIL OF THREE.

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