A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, "A Rogue’s Life" follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytelling—and with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings today—this is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best. Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank Softly is introduced to a variety of...
After Dark" is Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. The book is a series of tales supposed to be told to poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to save his sight. Collins provides a narrative framework, which tells us how the painter came to think of publishing the...
Wilkie Collins was an early master of mystery and suspense." Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome" was his first published novel, a colorful tale of ancient Rome. Of this work, Collins wrote: "To the fictitious characters alone is committed the task of representing the spirit of the age. The Roman emperor, Honorius, and the Gothic king, Alaric, mix but little personally in the business...
"Armadale" (1866) is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many...
"Basil" (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after "Antonina". Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him...
"Blind Love" is Wilkie Collin's final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Sir Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the "wild"...
"Heart and Science", one of Wilkie Collins' later novels, is concerned with the debate over what he termed 'the hideous secrets of vivisection.' The tale of a family split by various opinions and sentiments, as well as the novel's clear parallels to the animal welfare/animal rights debates of today will strike chords of understanding with modern readers, who always relate well to...
"Hide and Seek" was Wilkie Collins' third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel's characters. Suspense is created from the reader's uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how. The novel has a convoluted plot, in common with many of Collins’...
This 1884 novel features a young orphan, Emily Brown, who is courted by two eligible bachelors: Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school, and a clergyman, Miles Mirabel. Both claim to love her, but only one is telling the truth...and the other may be implicated in the suspicious death of her father.
An 1887 collection of 14 Wilkie Collins short stories first published between the years 1875 and 1887. The stories themselves are quite routine, being mainly Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong emphasis on the class system, but in the end that is what makes the stories so special. There are some common Wilkie Collins themes featured, including the common one of the...
The novel has a complex plot, common in Collins’ work. In a Prologue, a selfish and ambitious man casts off his wife in order to marry a wealthier and better-connected woman, by taking advantage of a loophole in the marriage laws of Ireland. The initial action takes place in the widowed Lady Lundie's house in Scotland. Geoffrey Delamayn has promised marriage to his lover Anne...
In Victorian England, a 15 year-old girl doesn't want the marriage her father has arranged for her. Her cousin (who is also her secret boyfriend!) hatches a scheme to get her out of it, with the help of the girl's best friend (herself in an arranged marriage). Their plan doesn't go down as smoothly as hoped, even as her fiancé, a man with secrets buried in his past, becomes...
This is a delightful tale of a woman of means who becomes the victim of the theft of a 500 pound note in her home. There are a number of possible suspects and she obtains help in persuing the perpetrator. She retains a young girl as her companion and as she is of much lower rank and may be looked on as the possible thief, she is sent away to her Aunt, Miss Pink, to live until the...
"No Name" (1862) is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round" before book publication. The story is told in eight major parts, called Scenes. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that...
"Poor Miss Finch" (1872) is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers. Twenty-one-year-old Lucilla Finch, the independently wealthy daughter of the rector of Dimchurch, Sussex, has been blind since infancy. Shortly after the narrator, Madame Pratolungo, arrives to serve as her paid companion,...
An illustrated travel book narrating writer Wilkie Collins's 1850 walking tour of Cornwall with his artist friend, Henry Brandling. Published in 1851 and dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland. In those days 'even the railway stops short at Plymouth' and the travellers have to sail to their first destination at St Germains. A minor Victorian classic of travel in Cornwall and it...
The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias.
As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Bologne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying. While there, he attends a card game, where he has an argument with an...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 15872 p. Свои лучшие работы Уилки Коллинз опубликовал в 1860-е годы, завоевав мировую известность. Лучший и самый знаменитый роман Коллинза — Лунный камень (1868), часто считается первым детективным романом на английском языке: его отличает психологическая точность, сочетание логического, типично детективного, мышления с романтическими мотивами;...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 15872 p. Свои лучшие работы Уилки Коллинз опубликовал в 1860-е годы, завоевав мировую известность. Лучший и самый знаменитый роман Коллинза — Лунный камень (1868), часто считается первым детективным романом на английском языке: его отличает психологическая точность, сочетание логического, типично детективного, мышления с романтическими мотивами;...
On the evidence of "The Dead Alive" 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 documented wrongful conviction case. Side by side with the novel, this book...
Формат Файла: PDF Collins' most financially successful novel, The Evil Genius, opens with a jury determining the fate of a sea captain whose ship allegedly facilitated a diamond theft. The story develops into a powerful novel of Victorian private life, including deception, adultery and divorce. An "evil genius" is threatening to rip apart the fabric of the Linley home. Who is...
The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another 'fallen leaves', who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past. Their histories are looked at from two perspectives: that of the ruthless capitalist society of England in which they live, and that of the Christian Socialism of the hero who has been...
Gerard Roylake, returned from Germany on the death of his father to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen, stays with his stepmother, who is keen to introduce him to local society and in particular to the sister of her friend Lady Rachel. On his first evening Gerard walks to the nearby River Loke and recognizes his childhood friend, Cristel Toller, the miller's daughter. He also...
A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) (after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879) Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona,...
The Haunted Hotel, is uncharacteristically short, and is an easy way to become acquainted with Wilkie Collins. The Haunted Hotel offers a fast moving, tight plot that maintains the reader's interest. It is a mystery story, a ghost story, and an early psychological thriller, all melded smoothly together. William Wilkie Collins, an English novelist, playwright, and author of...
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 serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie Collins' best novels. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective...
Уилки Коллинз. Лунный камень (на англ. яз).
"Лунный камень" - самая известная и, бесспорно, лучшая книга классика английской литературы Уилки Коллинза (1824 - 1889). В этом прекрасном произведении органично сочетаются черты классического детектива, приключенческого и авантюрного романа, а увлекательнейшее повествование сразу же захватывает читателя и держит в напряжении до...
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The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday her friend and suitor, Franklin Blake, brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and Franklin piece together a puzzling series of...
Love, mystery, and danger combine in Wilkie Collins's haunting tale of The Woman in White. A young art teacher falls in love with one of his students, a girl who is promised to another man. Although the object of the art teacher's affection marries her intended, it soon becomes clear that her husband is no honorable fellow. A dastardly scheme is uncovered, and when they realize...
Love, mystery, and danger combine in Wilkie Collins's haunting tale of The Woman in White. A young art teacher falls in love with one of his students, a girl who is promised to another man. Although the object of the art teacher's affection marries her intended, it soon becomes clear that her husband is no honorable fellow. A dastardly scheme is uncovered, and when they realize...
Love, mystery, and danger combine in Wilkie Collins's haunting tale of The Woman in White. A young art teacher falls in love with one of his students, a girl who is promised to another man. Although the object of the art teacher's affection marries her intended, it soon becomes clear that her husband is no honorable fellow. A dastardly scheme is uncovered, and when they realize...
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