En una fría noche de 1835, una mujer sale del orfanato de Londres donde trabaja. Otra mujer le da alcance, y le pregunta por el nombre de uno de los internos: su hijo. Con el tiempo, la identidad de……続きを見る
Mystery story published in 1884 with the heroine turning detective, to reveal the truth about the death of her father. The plot relies heavily on coincidence and, as in The Law and the Lady, a suppo……続きを見る
When a young aristocrat negotiates a secret marriage to a seventeen-year-old girl, he assents to her father's condition that they not live together for the first year. However, the consequences are ……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
9525--Collins's works were classified at the time as "sensation novels, " a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women……続きを見る
A classic novel by Wilkie Collins, which is also a critique of Victorian society, and its inequitable marriage laws and the rights and legal status of women.
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Wilkie Collins's collection of fourteen short stories published, after revision, in 1887. Unlike Collins's earlier collections, After Dark (1856) and The Queen of Hearts (1859), there is no connecti……続きを見る
Excerpt from Rambles Beyond Railways: Or Notes in Cornwall Taken a-Foot
If, in dismissing the second edition of "Rambles beyond Railways" from the Press, it had been only necessary to mention that I……続きを見る
Gerard Roylake returns from Germany on the death of his father to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On his first evening he walks to the nearby River Loke, “the ugliest, muddiest stream in En……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
Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Coll……続きを見る
he Two Destinies is a sensation novel written by Wilkie Collins that is set in the mid to late 19th century. The action centers around two inseparable children, the son of a nobleman and the daughte……続きを見る
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale ……続きを見る
Mr. Lismore is in terrible financial trouble. One day, an old rich widow visits him with a surprising propositionーmarry her and share her fortune. Though not a real marriage, Mr. Lismore and the wi……続きを見る
Comparso a puntate sulla rivista «The Year Round», diretta da Charles Dickens, La Pietra di Luna è stato definito dal poeta Thomas S. Eliot «il primo, il più lungo e il più bello dei romanzi polizie……続きを見る
The Moonstone is a page-turner, it catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding ta……続きを見る
This is a delightful tale of a woman of means who becomes the victim of the theft of a 500 pound note in her home. There are a number of possible suspects and she obtains help in pursuing the perpet……続きを見る
Blind Love is Wilkie Collin's final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the……続きを見る
"The Dead Alive": A fitting companion to The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins produced one of the first, if not the first, court room drama in whose footsteps a myriad of subsequent authors have followed. ……続きを見る
"The Frozen Deep": The play's genesis lay in the conflict between Dickens and John Rae's report on the fate of the Franklin expedition. In May 1845, the "Franklin expedition" left England in search ……続きを見る
Wilkie Collins's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels but it also ove……続きを見る
Excerpt: "My object in writing most of these papersーespecially those collected under the general heads of 'Sketches of Character' and 'Social Grievances'ーwas to present what I had observed and wha……続きを見る
The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. As the ……続きを見る
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough……続きを見る
An exploration of 'destined spirits' and supernatural visions, with a romantic twist. It is the perfect book for visions, deformed and veiled mysterious women, Scottish moors, fake marriages, murder……続きを見る
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 Gwilt: flame-ha……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
Enter Gerard Roylake, returning from Germany after his father dies, for his inheritance at Trimley Deen awaits. Whilst on an evening stroll he meets a childhood friend, Cristel Toller, and then thei……続きを見る
