The Legacy of Cain explores the theme of hereditary evil, and attacks the idea that 'bad blood' necessarily results in a criminality.
The main story begins in 1875. Helena and Eunice are sisters bro……続きを見る
One of the most didactic of Wilkie Collins' 'novels with a purpose', treating the then fashionable theme of the 'fallen woman' who attempts to put her past behind her but is repeatedly thwarted by t……続きを見る
Poor Miss Finch (1872) by Wilkie Collins is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers.
"Full of power, vigour……続きを見る
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AMONG THOSE who attended the first of the King’s levées, during the London season of 18 ー was an unmarried gentleman of large fortune, named Streatfield. While his carriage was proceeding s……続きを見る
The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins’ fourth published novel.
The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former……続きを見る
