Tres relatos " ¿quién mató a Zebedee? ", " una carta robada ", y "el tiro por la culata ", nos introducen en una intriga donde se suceden las preguntas y las respuestas en un pasado tan real como co……続きを見る
A thriller novel is a novel that uses suspense, excitement, apprehension and exhilaration to tell a story. Thriller novels have villains, suspense, and action in settings such as espionage, medicine……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
Wilkie Collins' 'Blind Love' is a gripping tale of betrayal, deception, and forbidden desires set in the Victorian era. The novel depicts the complexities of human relationships and societal norms t……続きを見る
There is much in this book that will interest the English artist. The story of the painter's life is plainly told ー with just enough, scattered here and there, of filial affection and partiality to……続きを見る
This volume contains an account of a pedestrian tour by Mr. Collins in Cornwall, a county to which railways had not yet penetrated at his time. Leaving Plymouth behind him, the author, and his artis……続きを見る
著者:Wilkie Collins
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2020年03月16日
WHILE the line to be taken by the new railway between Culm and Everill was still under discussion, the engineer caused some difference of opinion among the moneyed men who were the first Directors o……続きを見る
One of the principal characters in Mr. Collins's "Hide and Seek" is an artist; but the writer has not sketched him as labouring in his vocation amid alternations of despair and hope. "The painter in……続きを見る
'The Ostler" was originally published in 1855 as a short story, which later became the foundation for the much longer story 'The Dream Woman.' It is one of Wilkie Collins' first supernatural stories……続きを見る
Au coeur de 'L'abîme', cette collection réunissant Charles Dickens et Wilkie Collins, réside une exploration des profondeurs de la psyché humaine et des abîmes sociaux de l'ère victorienne. À traver……続きを見る
Mr. Wilkie Collins can tell a story well, and he has an ingenious knack of stringing stories together. After Dark consisted of a series of stories, and admirable they were, and 'The Queen of Hearts'……続きを見る
This extraordinary work ranks among the foremost purely melodramatic or sensation novels of modern times. Mr. Collins has thrown a force and power into this story, of which the reader has only seen ……続きを見る
The stories in this book, originally published as a double number of Dickens' 'All Year Round'-magazine, come from the likes of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Proc……続きを見る
The author of 'The Woman in White' and of 'No Name' has had reprinted and published a collection of articles contributed by him to Household Words, and perhaps to other periodicals. The two papers w……続きを見る
The joint-effort of Mr. Dickens and Mr. Wilkie Collins, apart from its merits or demerits, must excite curiosity and interest. It is clear that in " No Thoroughfare " the latter gentleman has had th……続きを見る
"I'm sick to death of novels with an earnest purpose. I'm sick to death of outbursts of eloquence, and large-minded philanthropy, and graphic descriptions, and unsparing anatomy of the human heart, ……続きを見る
'The Law and the Lady' is one of the most ingenious and most repulsive of Wilkie Collins's novels, and we doubt, if having begun, that anyone would leave it unfinished. The heroine marries a man and……続きを見る
Though perhaps this story does not equal, from a literary point of view, some of Collins's previous effortsーit being less sensational and less complicated in its plotーit is, nevertheless, one of t……続きを見る
A curious story of two brothers who are tried for a murder and found guilty under strongly convicting circumstances. After pleading innocence of the crime, they strangely make a confession to the ef……続きを見る
"In relation to the purely literary side of the question," as Mr. Wilkie Collins says, there can be no doubt that his studies of character in 'My Lady's Money' do seem to be drawn from nature. The s……続きを見る
The novel revolves around two totally different ladies, both of which happen to be widows. In England, we have Mrs. Wagner, who wants to run the business of her deceased husband and hire more women;……続きを見る
In 'Fallen Leaves', Mr. Wilkie Collins has touched on some very difficult problems, and has done it with delicacy. Though the main interest of the story does not lie in the plot, but rather in the c……続きを見る
Mr. Wilkie Collins has here presented us with a 'novel with a purpose', and yet he has sacrificed none of his freedom and adroit resource of treatment. He has evidently, as he claims in the preface,……続きを見る
著者:Wilkie Collins
出版社: Diamond Book Publishing
発売日: 2020年08月29日
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
Gerard Roylake, returning from the continent to England to receive his in heritance, finds that one of his tenants a miller in the old mill on the banks of that dark, gloomy, repellant river, the Lok……続きを見る
It is on the true story of Baron Carl Ludwig von Scheurer, in which so many insurance companies were interested, that Wilkie Collins based the plot of his novel 'Blind Love,' a work which he did not……続きを見る