The Two Destinies (1876), by Wilkie Collins, is a romance involving telepathy, mesmerism, supernatural visions, and spirits. Commenting on the confining conventions of the Victorian Era and its stri……続きを見る
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Regarded as a key stone of mystery literature, the plot is tricky to summarize briefly. This Victorian fiction involves the protagonist, a young drawing master, and his love for Laura Fairlie, a ric……続きを見る
Love is said to be the salve that soothes a damaged soul. But in some cases, an all-consuming intimacy can have the opposite effect, inflaming murderous jealousies and compelling people to act in th……続きを見る
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from……続きを見る
Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his tim……続きを見る
Interrelated short stories. As Collins explains in the Preface: "I HAVE taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far……続きを見る
著者:Wilkie Collins
出版社: Neeland Media LLC
発売日: 2012年01月01日
William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Today, ……続きを見る
The Law and the Lady" introduces one of English literature's earliest women detectives, Valeria Woodville. She investigates the murder of her husband's first wife in an attempt to prove hi……続きを見る
Long story. According to Wikipedia: "William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, ……続きを見る
Classic historical novel. According to the Preface: "To the fictitious characters alone is committed the task of representing the spirit of the age. The Roman emperor, Honorius, and the Gothic king,……続きを見る
Wilkie Collins's novel was published in 1879 and dedicated to Caroline Graves. The 'Fallen Leaves' of the title are 'The people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life...the friendless and the ……続きを見る
A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundr……続きを見る
“The Dead Secret” starts with a chapter where Mrs Treverton was lying dying in Porthgenna Tower on the west coast of Cornwall. She told her maid, Sarah Leeson, her last confession for her husband. S……続きを見る
“Hide and Seek” is the third published novel of Wilkie Collins. The plot is twisted and falls into two parts: the story of Madonna and the story of Matthew and his discovery of her. The book mainly ……続きを見る
“The Frozen Deep” novel is based on the real story of the doomed expedition to the Arctic. Frank Aldersley married Clara Burnham right before the expedition to find the North Passage. The same eveni……続きを見る
Wilkie Collins was an English writer, a founder of the “sensational” novel that divided to adventure and detective genre. He was an admitted master of intrigue and exciting plot with a comprehensive……続きを見る
“Blind love” was an unfinished novel because of the death of the author. It was completed by Walter Besant. It was published in 1890. This novel had an action-packed plot. It was based on the classi……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
This carefully crafted ebook: "Armadale (Mystery Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Armadale is a mystery novel. The novel has a convo……続きを見る
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This carefully crafted ebook: "No Name (Mystery Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. No Name is a 19th-century novel revolving around th……続きを見る
William Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Collins publ……続きを見る
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialized in Char……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
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
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high q……続きを見る
"The Moonstone" was originally published in 1868 by William Wilkie Collins. A 19th-century British epistolary novel, it is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and also established ……続きを見る
AT the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English……続きを見る
The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on land - the silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea.
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