Wilkie Collins - History 1

Published in 1850, Antonina, or The Fall of Rome was Wilkie Collins's first novel. Using accurate historical details about the Roman emperor Honorius and the Gothic king Alaric, he presents the……続きを見る

Sixteen years after the date of Mr. Ronald’s disastrous discovery at Ramsgateーthat is to say, in the year 1872ーthe steamshipAquila left the port of New York, bound for Liverpool. It was the month ……続きを見る

The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invadin……続きを見る

Will she last out the night, I wonder? "Look at the clock, Mathew." "Ten minutes past twelve! She has lasted the night out. She has lived, Robert, to see ten minutes of the new day." These words wer……続きを見る

It was the last day of July. The long hot summer was drawing to a close; and we, the weary pilgrims of the London pavement, were beginning to think of the cloud-shadows on the corn-fields, and the a……続きを見る

WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits’ end what to do with her. A word about ourselves, first of allーa necessary word, to explain ……続きを見る

NOT far from the source of the famous river, which rises in the mountains between Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond, and divides the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, travelers arrive at the venera……続きを見る

THE moment we were introduced to the drawing-room, my suspicions of the company we were likely to meet with were fully confirmed. “Cards, billiards, and betting”ーthere was the inscription legibly w……続きを見る

The anthology titled 'The Perils of Certain English Prisoners and Their Treasure in Women, Children, Silver, and Jewels' brings together the collaborative genius of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collin……続きを見る

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WE had been traveling for a little more than an hour when a change passed insensibly over us both. Still sitting close together, with my hand in his, with my head on his shoulder, little by little w……続きを見る

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The lazy tour of two idle apprentices ; No thoroughfare ; The perils of certain English prisoners by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Layard is one of the great book for those who love C……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: An illustrated travel book narrating writer Wilkie Collins's 1850 walking tour of Cornwall with his artist fr……続きを見る

It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad. The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town, and the diligence was ex……続きを見る

The weary old nineteenth century had advanced into the last twenty years of its life. Towards two o’clock in the afternoon, Ovid Vere (of the Royal College of Surgeons) stood at the window of his co……続きを見る

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