Kun nuori englantilainen asianajaja lähtee vierailulle kaukaisten sukulaistensa luokse Amerikkaan, hän ei aavista joutuvansa keskelle suurta mysteeriä. Sukulaisten taloon on nimittäin vastikään muut……続きを見る
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Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira.
Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être……続きを見る
Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira.
Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être éclairci ……続きを見る
A classic masterpiece of mystery novels!!
The first mystery novel in English literature.
It is a letter-type novel and is the first mystery novel in the history of English literature.
Instead of wri……続きを見る
Although 'Basil' is a story of today, although all its accidental environments are of the most ordinary character, although the scene is laid in a scarce-finished suburban square (say in Brompton or……続きを見る
A good bookshelf is not complete without this charming little tale. It is founded on what was related to the author as a fact, as to the first obtaining of the well-known cast of the face of Shakesp……続きを見る
The setting for the six stories in this book is an episode in the life of a travelling portrait-painter, which we are made to learn through the charmingly simple narrative of his wife's diary. Disab……続きを見る
Wilkie Collins possesses the art of writing plays and stories so as to awaken and sustain the interest of the reader. He can create and work out a plot. It is true that the subject-matter of the plo……続きを見る
L'hôtel hanté de Wilkie Collins est un roman gothique captivant qui se déroule dans un hôtel isolé et mystérieux. Collins maîtrise l'art de créer une ambiance sombre et inquiétante à travers des des……続きを見る
The special charm of 'No Name' is the uncertainty in which the reader is kept. The most experienced of novel-readers is unable to predict whether Magdalen succeeds in her scheme, or marries Capt. Ki……続きを見る
'A Rogue's Life' was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of……続きを見る
The main actor in this play, that was co-written with Mr. Charles Dickens, is Richard Wardour, a man of violent passions, who has been supplanted in the affections of the woman to whom he was ardent……続きを見る
A Christmas and New Year's Story. Though totally unlike any of Dickens' Christmas stories of former years, this is by no means inferior to the best of them. It may not be so highly imaginative as th……続きを見る
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
An unpleasant ex-soldier, Colonel Herncastle, brought back Moonstone from India, where he was acquired through robbery and murder during the blockade of Seringapatam,……続きを見る
L'intégrale des 3 époques en un seul volume.
William Wilkie Collins est né à Marylebone en Londres le 8 janvier 1824. Il est le fils d’un peintre paysagiste renommé, William Collins. À 17 ans, il ab……続きを見る
One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of ab……続きを見る
If the only test of fiction is that it shall secure interest, then Mr. Wilkie Collins has succeeded to the full with this novel. The construction is almost perfect, and the interest is so graduated,……続きを見る
Wilkie Collins has given us in this novel one more instance of his strange capacity for weaving extra plots. Armadale, from beginning to end, is a lurid labyrinth of improbabilities. It produces upo……続きを見る
Mr. Wilkie Collins brings to his work, along with other and valuable qualities, the special talent of the private detective and the criminal lawyer. Almost no modern novelist stands in any compariso……続きを見る
'Miss or Mrs.?' is a story in outline, and maybe the only instance in which Mr. Wilkie Collins has wasted his material; an entire novel might be constructed in his architectural style from its Incid……続きを見る
The story of two people who begin to love each other as boy and girl. Some mysterious agency seems to be at work, all through the story, in their behalf; for though apparently separated as children ……続きを見る
'The Black Robe' combines some aim at psychological analysis with great inventiveness. Mr. Wilkie Collins never writes carelessly; and in this instance he has been especially careful. The great poin……続きを見る
'The Haunted Hotel' is a story which, like others of Mr. Wilkie Collins's stories, fascinates the reader, and compels him to finish it at a sitting. It has, too, this merit, that as the story progre……続きを見る
Whether society should recognize a couple who, after being divorced, become reconciled, agree to forget their past difficulties and re-marry, is the question Mr. Collins tries to solve. The "evil ge……続きを見る
The popularity of Wilkie Collins is as unquestionable as his mannerism, and when this story bears the title 'I Say No', it is characteristic of him that the meaning of this title is not made clear u……続きを見る
