ArmadaleBy: Wilkie Collins An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T. S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia