Mr. Cosway and the Landlady

About this book

Mr. Cosway and the Landlady by Wilkie Collins explores how an impulsive decision and an apparently ordinary document can change a relationship. In a rural household, a man with an uncertain past encounters a resourceful widowed landlady, and the consequences of his stay soon extend beyond an unpaid bill. Pride meets calculation as personal independence comes up against written obligations. Through social irony and suspense, Collins tests friendship, trust and the cost of choices made too quickly. The story will appeal to readers of classic fiction interested in the quiet struggles for power beneath everyday arrangements.