Wilkie Collins - Libros y biografía

Londres, une fiancée humiliée, une veuve manipulatrice, une famille en apparence respectueuse des usages de la haute société victorienne... Mais qui sont-ils tous en vérité ? Qui est vraiment cette comtesse...

Eine skrupellose Manipulation...Eine junge Zeichenlehrer....Und eine mysteriöse Frau in Weiß.

Verschwörungen, Komplotte, Intrigen...und eine verwirrende Liebe zwischen Iris und Lord Harry. Wilkie Collins war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller.

Bei den in England verbliebenen Verwandten eines frisch verheirateten Ehemanns trifft ein Brief ein, der seinen Tod während der Flitterwochen in Italien anzeigt. Keiner der Verwandten will den Briefen,...

THE hands on the hall-clock pointed to half-past six in the morning. The house was a country residence in West Somersetshire, called Combe-Raven. The day was the fourth of March, and the year was eighteen...

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-a necessary word, to explain the...

Before I begin, by the aid of my wife's patient attention and ready pen, to relate any of the stories which I have heard at various times from persons whose likenesses I have been employed to take, it...

A young aristocrat falls in love with a shopkeeper’s daughter and is forced to hide his marriage to her from his relatives because of the existing class inequality. The hero of the novel is subjected...

In Wilkie Collins' 'No Name,' readers are taken on a thrilling journey filled with secrets, betrayal, and unexpected twists. The novel, written in Collins' signature Victorian sensational style, delves...

The novel is set in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the imperfection of the marriage legislation of England, Ireland and Scotland and the presence of conflicting articles in it, a woman...

"You don't have to put on the red light", as Sting sings – except this female main character, Mercy Merrick, comes to that conclusion herself. Originally written as a play, "The New Magdalen" is a classic...

"The Fallen Leaves" is a British garage rock group that formed in Richmond, London in 2004. Their most commercially successful release was 2013's "If Only We'd Known" with their top hit being "Against...

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...

Imagine as a woman losing all your property to your husband. Sadly, such was the law for much of the Victorian times. Wilkie Collins's novel "The Woman in White" (starring Charles Dance in a recent BBC...

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,...

Dr Phil didn't invent family drama. This Victorian novel might as well be given the Dr Phil caption of "I found out my parents weren't married, and my cousin won't give me my inheritance". A suspenseful...

You've probably read or seen a film based on an epistolary novel (a story presented through letters sent between characters): "Persuasion", "Dracula", and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". You'll also...

In case you've never taken a moment to stop looking at cat videos and arguing with strangers on the Internet to appreciate the readily accessible cornucopia of collected human knowledge that your phone...

Le colonel Herncastle, officier de l'armée des Indes, connaissait la malédiction de la pierre de lune, lorsqu'il déroba ce diamant au front d'un dieu hindou. C'est pourtant ce mystérieux bijou, ayant...

Pour les médecins accourus à son chevet, pour les experts des assurances-vie venus enquêter sur place, la mort soudaine de lord Montbarry dans un palais vénitien, peu de temps après son mariage, n'a rien...

If you've seen "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis, you'll be familiar with Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: deliberately making a person feel unwell in order to care for them. In "Jezebel's Daughter", the...

Old-timey horror is often a hard sell to a modern, visually-oriented audience whose palettes have long been cleansed, and numbed, by jumpscares, the gorefests of SAW-movies and the now common trope of...

You've gotta love those travel documentaries with celebrities awkwardly trying to make their interactions with locals seem impromptu and organic. Perhaps it's best to let the writers express the escapism...

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...

Cagney and Lacey may be the most iconic female detective duo, but who was the fictional female sleuth who started it all? Nancy Drew? Maybe Miss Marple? Nope – one of the first literary female detectives...

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...

Ok, nobody wants to lose pound500 – but is it big enough of a deal to deserve a short story? To put it into context: a Victorian pound500 was about pound60,000 in today's money. So, yeah, it's a big...

A giant diamond stolen from India; a rakish rogue; a naive teenager and a drug-fueled scandal.These are the leading parts that combine to make one of the greatest detective novels of all time.'The Moonstone'...

If you're born in the Western world or have played a lot of video games, chances are the title "The Legacy of Cain" will make you think of either polygon vampires or take you straight back to the lazy...

Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for playing the Joker, capturing the psychologically dark personality of a villain. Critics were stunned – just as how the villainous character of Lydia Gwilt in "Armadale"...