Walter Hartright, a drawing instructor, comes to Limmeridge House to teach Laura and Marion Halcombe. He falls in love with Laura, but she is betrothed to someone else, and he must therefore leave Limmeridge. Before he goes, he tells Marian about his encounter with a beautiful woman dressed entirely in white, whom he later discovers escaped from ...
Franklin Blake is in love with Rachel Verinder. The gem he gives her, the moonstone, disappears, and the police cannot solve the crime. Eventually, Rachel spurns Franklin, and he goes abroad in an attempt to forget her and recover. When Franklin's father dies and Franklin returns to England, he resolves to win her back by solving the mystery of ...
A child born out of wedlock, her anguished mother, and ancient family secrets comprise the plot of this Wilkie Collins thriller, a sterling example of Victorian "sensation fiction."
From the author of THE MOONSTONE and THE WOMAN IN WHITE comes the story of Lydia Gwilt, a beautiful, unscrupulous woman who marries, deceives, and murders with abandon.
Wilkie Collins tells the story of Magdalen Vanstone. When she and her sister are revealed as illegitimate, they are denied their inheritance and excluded from society. Her sister bows to her fate, but Magdalen herself is determined to overcome society's obstacles to claim her money and her position.
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet ...
An upstanding young man falls in love with a beautiful daughter of a tradesman--but cannot marry her, not because of their inequality in class, but because she is sexually immoral. Like Collins's later fiction, BASIL includes an irredeemable villain, letters and a manuscript from various characters, and detailed descriptions of the English ...
Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority, to take ...
Lewis Romayne is a recluse, forced from his life of academic research by the dying call of an aunt in Paris. Subsequently involved in a duel, he returns a broken man, until he meets Stella Eyrecourt and marriage becomes a possibility. But a face from the past begins a battle for Romayne's soul.
William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868), Armadale (1866) and No Name ...
Collins's short tales are star examples of the "sensation fiction" so beloved by the Victorians. Considered inferior to his brilliantly plotted novels with their probing psychological portraits, the stories are nonetheless worth reading. Usually mysteries, frequently incorporating supernatural elements, they anticipate more modern elements, such ...
Eleven thrilling tales, featuring works by the finest masters of the genre: Mary E. Wilkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Henry James, J. S. LeFanu, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, and more.
A novel that takes as its premise the Scottish marriage law of "irregular marriage", which states: "Consent makes marriage. No form of ceremony, civil or religious; no notice before, or publication after; no cohabitation, no writing, no witnesses even, are essential to the constitution of this, the most important contract two persons can enter ...
"The Evil Genius" is the story of divorce and remarriage, unfaithfulness, but above all, children battered helplessly on the storms of their parents' passions. It begins with the story of Kitty's ill-fated governess Sydney Westerfield, a girl thrown aside in the grand tradition of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield. (Classics)
Set largely in April and May of 1851, this novel explores the relationship of Charles Dickens with novelist Wilkie Collins and Inspector William Fred of the Metrop olitan Protectives of London, one of the first professional detectives. Delightful mystery and historical pastiche in the tradition of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
Written in 1872, POOR MISS FINCH concerns a blind woman in love with an epileptic whose treatments, bizarrely, turn him blue. Her eyesight temporarily restored, she must choose between her blue lover and his healthy twin brother, who also loves her.
On the evidence of The Dead Alive, Scott Turow writes in his foreword that Wilkie Collins might well be the first author of a legal thriller. Here is the lawyer out of sorts with his profession; the legal process gone awry; even a touch of romance to soften the rigors of the law. And here, too, recast as fiction, is the United States' first ...
Collins's short tales are star examples of the "sensation fiction" so beloved by the Victorians. Considered inferior to his brilliantly plotted novels with their probing psychological portraits, the stories are nonetheless worth reading. Usually mysteries, frequently incorporating supernatural elements, they anticipate more modern elements, such ...
A novel set in the nineteenth century which tells the story of a forbidden romance which develops between the daughter of a disgraced and penniless widow and the son of a successful businessman.
This unique single-volume edition of an unjustly neglected collection of tales compiled by Charles Dickens is a perfect companion to Hesperus' best-selling edition of The Haunted House. Compiled by Charles Dickens and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the ...
Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth-making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through an analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, this text attempts to re-create the context and contradictions that shaped Roman ideas about brothers. It brings ...
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