Wilkie Collins - Books and biography

What is "poor" about Miss Finch? Well, with a novel with names like "Mr Sebright" (he's an eye specialist – "see bright", geddit?), it's all about sight. You see, Lucilla Finch has been blind since infancy...

If you have ever come across the word "rogue" before, chances are you have either been playing video games, perused old X-Men comics or have overheard it as part of your aunt's vocabulary, while she was...

Surprisingly, not the true story about what happened to the other two after Beyoncé disbanded Destiny's Child to pursue a solo career, "The Two Destinies" is a manageable little number about George and...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Woman in White (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Woman in White is considered to be among the first...

Perhaps Wilkie Collins' editor thought "John Jago's Ghost" sounded too much like an exciting tale of cursed, swashbuckling pirates for the alternate title of this novella to end up on the cover and instead...

It usually takes somebody already familiar with the piece or its author, or perhaps a bride-to-be who went a little too deep down the Google rabbit hole, to whip up much attention for a title like "The...

Enticed by a large sum of money, Jessie, a spunky young girl of 20 summers, moves into a grand house inhabited by three older men. Now, if you think you already know where "Queen of Hearts" is heading,...

Wilkie Collins' novel 'Poor Miss Finch' is a captivating tale of deception, obsession, and unconventional love. Set in the Victorian era, the book explores themes of identity, beauty, and societal expectations....

Wilkie Collins' 'Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot' is a compelling travelogue that explores the beauty and history of Cornwall through the eyes of the author. Collins narrative...

In Wilkie Collins' 'The Black Robe,' the reader is taken on a thrilling journey through Victorian England as the author expertly weaves together elements of mystery, gothic horror, and social commentary....

In 'The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice' by Wilkie Collins, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the gothic atmosphere of Venice. Collins, known for his skillful blend of mystery...

Wilkie Collins' The Dead Alive is a captivating mystery novel that delves into the complex themes of identity, betrayal, and deception. Set in the Victorian era, the book is written in a detailed and...

In Wilkie Collins' novel 'The New Magdalen,' the reader is taken on a journey exploring themes of redemption, morality, and society's treatment of fallen women. Written in Collins' signature suspenseful...

The author of 'The Woman in White' and of 'No Name' has had reprinted and published a collection of articles contributed by him to Household Words, and perhaps to other periodicals. The two papers which...

The special charm of 'No Name' is the uncertainty in which the reader is kept. The most experienced of novel-readers is unable to predict whether Magdalen succeeds in her scheme, or marries Capt. Kirke,...

There is much in this book that will interest the English artist. The story of the painter's life is plainly told — with just enough, scattered here and there, of filial affection and partiality to take...

'The Ostler" was originally published in 1855 as a short story, which later became the foundation for the much longer story 'The Dream Woman.' It is one of Wilkie Collins' first supernatural stories,...

In 'Antonina, or The Fall of Rome', Mr. Collins reproduces in very vivid and gorgeous colors the striking and important events that marked the first steps in the decline of the Roman power. The period...

Wilkie Collins has given us in this novel one more instance of his strange capacity for weaving extra plots. Armadale, from beginning to end, is a lurid labyrinth of improbabilities. It produces upon...

"I'm sick to death of novels with an earnest purpose. I'm sick to death of outbursts of eloquence, and large-minded philanthropy, and graphic descriptions, and unsparing anatomy of the human heart, and...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Woman in White is considered to be among the...

"The Haunted Hotel" is a suspenseful and captivating story of a family who has been told of their relative's sudden death whilst on his honeymoon in Italy. Feeling rather suspicious of his new wife, Countess...

'The Law and the Lady' is one of the most ingenious and most repulsive of Wilkie Collins's novels, and we doubt, if having begun, that anyone would leave it unfinished. The heroine marries a man and soon...

Wilkie Collins' last-but-one novel was originally published in 1889. The Reverend Abel Gracedieu raises two daughters. One of them was adopted seventeen years before the story starts because her mother...

Gerard Roylake, returning from the continent to England to receive his in heritance, finds that one of his tenants a miller in the old mill on the banks of that dark, gloomy, repellant river, the Loke,...

Wilkie Collins' novel 'The Dead Secret' delves into the mysterious and haunting tale of a hidden family secret that unravels the lives of characters in a gripping narrative. Collins' literary style is...

A curious story of two brothers who are tried for a murder and found guilty under strongly convicting circumstances. After pleading innocence of the crime, they strangely make a confession to the effect...

Though perhaps this story does not equal, from a literary point of view, some of Collins's previous efforts—it being less sensational and less complicated in its plot—it is, nevertheless, one of the best...

This extraordinary work ranks among the foremost purely melodramatic or sensation novels of modern times. Mr. Collins has thrown a force and power into this story, of which the reader has only seen intimations...

It is on the true story of Baron Carl Ludwig von Scheurer, in which so many insurance companies were interested, that Wilkie Collins based the plot of his novel 'Blind Love,' a work which he did not live...