Wilkie Collins - Mystery & Suspense 27

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early modern example of the detective novel, and established many of the gr……続きを見る

«Collins scoprì il mistero dietro le nostre porte di casa» ha scritto Henry James. Nel luogo elettivo dell'esoterismo nero di un tempo, l'Italia, due giovani a caccia di un cadavere: l'ossessione ch……続きを見る

Perhaps Wilkie Collins' editor thought "John Jago's Ghost" sounded too much like an exciting tale of cursed, swashbuckling pirates for the alternate title of this novella to end up on the cover and ……続きを見る

Quando le due sorelle Magdalen e Norah Vanston, alla morte improvvisa dei genitori, scoprono che questi non erano sposati, si trovano private di una cospicua eredità e costrette a guadagnarsi da viv……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

Amelius Goldenheart viene esiliato dalla Comunità Cristiana di Tadmor, nell’Illinois, a causa della relazione illecita con una donna più matura. Una volta giunto a Londra, al ricordo del mondo ideal……続きを見る

Quale terribile segreto nasconde la misteriosa figura femminile che si aggira di notte per le buie strade di Londra? Questo è solo il primo di una serie di intrighi, apparizioni e sparizioni, delitt……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

31 Complete Works of Wilkie Collins A Fair Penitent A House to Let A Rogue's Life After Dark Antonina Armadale Basil Blind Love Heart and Science Hide and Seek I Say No Jezebel's Daughter Miss or Mr……続きを見る

Williamilla on onnea, kun hän pääsee palvelijaksi herra ja rouva Norcrossin talouteen. Onhan perhe rikas ja hyvämaineinen. Kun herra Norcross menehtyy, nuori leski jää asuttamaan suurta maatilaa pal……続きを見る

Right from its title, the novel carries an Indian flavour. Moonstone is the legendary diamond stone set in the forehead of the statue of god at Somnath. Apart from being sacred and of great religiou……続きを見る

Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is ……続きを見る

You've probably read or seen a film based on an epistolary novel (a story presented through letters sent between characters): "Persuasion", "Dracula", and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". You'll a……続きを見る

The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the ……続きを見る

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the s……続きを見る

Der Schauplatz meiner grauenvollen Geschichte war ein unregelmäßiges Gebäude von großer Ausdehnung, dessen einzelne Teile aus verschiedenen Zeiten, und manche aus der früheren Klosterzeit herrührten……続きを見る

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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

Armadale by Wilkie Collins is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), a……続きを見る

“The Lock and Key Library” is an anthology of short stories edited by Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), an American writer and journalist who was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The edition featuring “C……続きを見る

No Name by Wilkie Collins No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the……続きを見る

Der 'Britisch-Krimi Sammelband' präsentiert eine bemerkenswerte Zusammenstellung klassischer Detektivgeschichten, die von einigen der brillantesten Köpfe des Genres stammen. Diese Anthologie vereint……続きを見る

A young woman gets married and suddenly finds herself in a situation where her loving and beloved husband turns out to be the bearer of a different surname, and a terrible, dark and discrediting sec……続きを見る

Gerard Roiland, a typical Collins outsider, returns from college in Germany to take over his family estate at Trimley Dean and falls inappropriately in love with Kristel Toller, the daughter of one ……続きを見る

Mrs. Galileo is engaged in various studies and spends much more than she can afford. Suddenly, Mrs. Galileo receives custody of her niece Carmina, in her plans to never let the guardianship out of h……続きを見る

A novel about a young woman, Jessie Yelverton (also known as the Queen of Hearts), aged 20, who soon inherits an inheritance from her dead parents. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Jessie is f……続きを見る

The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this sto……続きを見る

The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritz’s father is opposed to his son’s marriage and believes that Mina and her mother encroached o……続きを見る

The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters……続きを見る