Wilkie Collins - Literary 7

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

English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery. Wilkie (William) Collins was born in London on January 8, 1824. His father (also called William) was a landscape painter, but it seems his ……続きを見る

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinist……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels. Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. This edition of Blind Love includes a table of contents. 続きを見る

Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels. Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. This edition of The Evil Genius includes a table of con……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels. Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. This edition of The Dead Alive includes a table of cont……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels. Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. This edition of My Lady’s Money includes a table of con……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels. Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. This edition of Heart and Science: A Story of the Prese……続きを見る

Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels. Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. This edition of The New Magdalen includes a table of co……続きを見る

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. W……続きを見る

En 1881, la jeune Emily Brown et sa meilleure amie Cecilia Wyvil sont pensionnaires dans une école pour jeunes filles. Peu avant les vacances estivales, Emily, apprend qu'une jeune professeur est re……続きを見る

Dans le train qui l'emmène en voyage de noces à Ramsgate, Valéria Woodville pense aux semaines qui ont précédé son mariage : sa rencontre avec Eustache, ses rapides fiançailles avec lui, l'inquiétud……続きを見る

Les Français avaient oublié ce roman, ancêtre de tous les thrillers, qui fascinait Borges et rendit jaloux Dickens (roman publié ici pour la première fois en version intégrale). Il nous révèle une s……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous e……続きを見る

Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- ……続きを見る

Le colonel Herncastle, officier de l'armée des Indes, connaissait la malédiction de la pierre de lune, lorsqu'il déroba ce diamant au front d'un dieu hindou. C'est pourtant ce mystérieux bijou, ayan……続きを見る

Une nuit, Walter Hartright, jeune professeur de dessin, porte secours à une mystérieuse " dame en blanc " que semble poursuivre une obscure menace. La jeune femme, parmi des propos incohérents, lais……続きを見る

Iris Henley is at odds with her father because she refuses to marry Hugh Mountjoy, nephew of her Irish godfather. She is in love with the wild Lord Harry Norland, a friend of Hugh's brother, Arthur.……続きを見る

AT a time when French readers were altogether unaware of the existence of any books of my writing, a critical examination of my novels appeared under your signature in the Revue des Deux Mondes. I r……続きを見る

Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant. 続きを見る

In Wilkie Collins' 'The Traveller's Story of a Very Strange Bed,' readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a mysterious and suspenseful tale. Written in Collins' trademark style of intricate……続きを見る

Iris Henley is a bright young woman that falls in love with an unstable man whose criminal history begins to catch up with them. Despite their obstacles, Iris chooses to stand by and defend her husb……続きを見る

The Queen of Hearts is a fictional character from the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. She is a foul-tempered monarch whom Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", an……続きを見る

Man and Wife (1870) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written at the height of Collins’ career, Man and Wife displays the author’s the trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease that made him a……続きを見る

Dopo secoli di avventure e vicissitudini, la pietra di Luna, prezioso e antico diamante giallo originario dell’India, giunge in Inghilterra e viene donata a una giovane nobildonna di nome Rachel Ver……続きを見る

La Legge e la Signora, opera della maturità di Wilkie Collins, oltre a presentare diversi elementi della moderna letteratura di genere, è il primo esempio di romanzo poliziesco che ha per protagonis……続きを見る

Anne Silvester, giovane e raffinata, è accolta come istitutrice presso la famiglia di Lady Lundie, amica d’infanzia della sua sfortunata madre, e diviene inseparabile dalla figlia di lei, Blanche. Q……続きを見る

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape,……続きを見る

Alors que Walter Wilding se croit condamné à une existence misérable, il hérite une somme d’argent considérable d’une mère qu’il n’a jamais connue. Se croyant sauvé, il apprend que cette mystérieuse……続きを見る

Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark stree……続きを見る