![]() One is Dina, passive and wanting only to please the other is Celeste, angry, challenging, and hungry. Two new personalities emerge to take the brunt of her father's sexual forays. I discover its pleasure before its shame''), Silverman is able to recreate the emotional trail that leads from terror to pleasure, from confusion and fear to disassociation. Extraordinarily frank (``It feels good, yes. With her mother's unspoken acquiesence (``I was a present to her husband'') Silverman became a willing instrument in calming her beloved father's frequent rages. Beginning when she was four years old, the incest escalated from fondling in the bathtub to oral and finally full-fledged and frequent vaginal intercourse. ![]() With great courage and startling compassion, Silverman tells the story of how her father, once chief counsel to the secretary of the Interior and later an international banker, made her his sexual companion. A woman's excrutiatingly painful and explicit account of 14 years of incestuous abuse. ![]()
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Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions. ![]() In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (185960) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. 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