Lolani Or Tahiti As It Was - A Romance

Step aside, beach reads – here comes a 19th-century fever dream of palm trees, forbidden love, and colonial chaos.
Before Wilkie Collins became famous for twisting Victorian minds with The Woman in White, he took a literary vacation to the South Pacific – well, in his head, anyway. Lolani; or, Tahiti as It Was – A Romance is Collins’ first (and possibly weirdest) novel, resurrected from obscurity by Princeton University Press in 1999.

Expect all the tropes: noble islanders, scheming outsiders, and enough melodrama to fill an entire crate of dusty rum bottles. It’s part historical fantasy, part romance, and all unapologetically “of its time.”

Why buy it from Crappy Old Books? Because we know you don’t want another pristine, soulless reprint – you want something with character, maybe a faint whiff of attic dust, and the thrill of owning a Wilkie Collins deep cut that even hardcore fans forget exists.

Conditon as new. Hardback with paper dust jacket.

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