Wilkie Collins - 電子書籍 21

En "Armadale", su obra más larga y una de sus obras magistrales, el maestro Wilkie Collins teje una trama envolvente y seductora que brega entre identidades confusas, maldiciones heredadas, rivalida……続きを見る

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remai……続きを見る

La historia tiene lugar en Inglaterra y gira en torno a una bella joven de la aristocracia llamada Rachel Verinder quien en el día de su décimo octavo aniversario recibe como legado un fabuloso diam……続きを見る

"A House to Let" was the first collaboration between the four writers, although Collins and Dickens had worked with Procter on previous Christmas stories for the magazine in 1854, 1855, and 1856. Th……続きを見る

A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue’s Life follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytellingーand with many a grain of……続きを見る

The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the ge……続きを見る

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and friends. Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents le……続きを見る

This 1884 novel features a young orphan, Emily Brown, who is courted by two eligible bachelors: Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school, and a clergyman, Miles Mirabel. Both claim to love her……続きを見る

Der Kunstlehrer Walter Hartright soll die beiden Halbschwestern Marian Halcombe und Laura Fairlie, die in Limmeridge House in Cumberland wohnen, im Zeichnen unterrichten. Am Abend vor seiner Abreise……続きを見る

The Secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamond Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact t……続きを見る

As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card game, where he has an argument with a corrupt card……続きを見る

Experience of the reception of The Fallen Leaves by intelligent readers, who have followed the course of the periodical publication at home and abroad, has satisfied me that the design of the work s……続きを見る

La Pierre de lune est un très gros diamant jaune, incrusté dans une statue hindoue représentant la lune. Il est volé par le colonel Herncastle durant la prise de Srirangapatna en 1799. À sa mort, He……続きを見る

The Frozen Deep is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens. Dickens's hand was so prominentーbeside acti……続きを見る

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she i……続きを見る

"The Woman in White", masterpiece written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1860, is one of the earliest and most-beloved mystery novels. The public loved the mystery and intrigue behind the identi……続きを見る

A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. From the author of The Moonstone and The ……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins wrote a succession of extraordinarily powerful novels of private life; of these "The Evil Genius" is among the finest. The story is motivated by the attraction between Herbert Linley ……続きを見る

Med sin virtuose blanding af lige dele chok sensualisme og spænding skabte Wilkie Collins med Kvinden i hvidt en helt ny retning inden for romangenren den første sensationsroman. Realisme og sensati……続きを見る

Månestenen - en dyrebar gul diamant - bliver stjålet fra et tempel i Indien og i hemmelighed bragt til England. Her befinder den sig skjult i mange år. Ud over at være kostbar har diamanten også sto……続きを見る

Sixteen years after the date of Mr. Ronald’s disastrous discovery at Ramsgateーthat is to say, in the year 1872ーthe steamshipAquila left the port of New York, bound for Liverpool. It was the month ……続きを見る

The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invadin……続きを見る

Will she last out the night, I wonder? "Look at the clock, Mathew." "Ten minutes past twelve! She has lasted the night out. She has lived, Robert, to see ten minutes of the new day." These words wer……続きを見る

It was the last day of July. The long hot summer was drawing to a close; and we, the weary pilgrims of the London pavement, were beginning to think of the cloud-shadows on the corn-fields, and the a……続きを見る

WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits’ end what to do with her. A word about ourselves, first of allーa necessary word, to explain ……続きを見る

NOT far from the source of the famous river, which rises in the mountains between Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond, and divides the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, travelers arrive at the venera……続きを見る

THE moment we were introduced to the drawing-room, my suspicions of the company we were likely to meet with were fully confirmed. “Cards, billiards, and betting”ーthere was the inscription legibly w……続きを見る

« En 1860, la réputation du docteur Wybrow de Londres était arrivée à son apogée. Les gens bien informés affirmaient que de tous les médecins en renom, c'était lui qui gagnait le plus d'argent.Un ap……続きを見る

1884 Traduction de Camille Valdy, Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1888 En 1881, la jeune Emily Brown et sa meilleure amie Cecilia Wyvil sont pensionnaires dans une école pour jeunes filles. Peu avant les……続きを見る

La Pierre de Lune est un diamant maudit, qui nuit à tous ses propriétaires successifs depuis son vol lors de la mise à sac d'un temple indien par l'armée anglaise. Offert à une jeune femme le jour d……続きを見る