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The girl named Mary -- they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael -- was a mystery. The Blyths adopted her from a kindly old woman connected to a traveling...
The plot revolves around the use of poisons and includes forensic details applicable to detective fiction.
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband....
In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes...
Unusual and convoluted mystery. Viewed by the Clap-trap morality of the day, this may be a very daring book. Judged by the Christian morality which is of all time, it is simply a book daring enough to...
The guilty river is the "ugliest, muddiest stream in England." It runs back of an old mill, inhabited by the miller, his beautiful daughter, and a lodger, who is deaf and almost insane with jealousy if...
Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through...
The first canine detective story from English novelist, playwright, and short story writer Wilkie Collins.
A high ranking Catholic priest schemes to recover land considered Church property.
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...
Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiancé is forced to take an extended trip to Canada’s drier...
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them...
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,...
The critical reader may possibly notice a tone of almost boisterous gayety in certain parts of these imaginary Confessions. I can only plead, in defense, that the story offers the faithful reflection...
A series of tales supposed to be told to a portrait-painter by his sitters; the framework tells us how he came to think of publishing the stories thus collected; the introductions describe the circumstances...
An exploration of 'destined spirits' and supernatural visions, with a romantic twist.
A treatment of the fashionable theme of the 'fallen woman' who attempts to put her past behind her but is repeatedly thwarted by the prejudices of respectable English society.
Automne 1870, les armées françaises et allemandes sont engagées dans de violents combats. Quelques soldats français ont trouvé refuge dans une maison d'un petit village, ils sont accompagnés de deux jeunes...
Norah et Madeleine Vanstone, deux belles adolescentes, sont élevées au château de Comb Raven, par l'institutrice de la famille, Miss Garth. Wilkie Collins nous dépeint pendant toutes ces pages la vie...
Wilkie Collins nous dépeint pendant toutes ces pages la vie d'une famille heureuse où grosso modo tout se passe pour le mieux. En effet, la famille Vanstone, les parents et leurs deux filles, vivent un...
Dans le train qui l'emmène en voyage de noces à Ramsgate, Valéria Woodville pense aux semaines qui ont précédé son mariage : sa rencontre avec Eustache, ses rapides fiançailles avec lui, l'inquiétude...
Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths.
La Pierre de Lune est un diamant maudit, qui nuit à tous ses propriétaires successifs depuis son vol lors de la mise à sac d'un temple indien par l'armée anglaise. Offert à une jeune femme le jour de...
Iris Henley est brouillée avec son père: Celui-ci souhaite la voir épouser Hugues Montjoie, profondément épris d'Iris. Mais Iris aime un autre homme, Lord Harry. Malheureusement, la vie dissolue de celui-ci...
Dans le train qui l'emmène en voyage de noces à Ramsgate, Valéria Woodville pense aux semaines qui ont précédé son mariage: sa rencontre avec Eustache, ses rapides fiançailles avec lui, l'inquiétude de...
En 1881, la jeune Emily Brown et sa meilleure amie Cecilia Wyvil sont pensionnaires dans une école pour jeunes filles. Peu avant les vacances estivales, Emily, apprend qu'une jeune professeur est renvoyée....
La jeune Anne Sylvester est la fille de l'épouse déchue d'un gentleman anglais. Anne est recueillie par la meilleure amie de sa mère quand celle-ci décède, et devient la préceptrice de sa fille, Blanche....
Été 1829. Dans un manoir de Cornouailles, madame Treverton est mourante. Elle va laisser un mari désespéré et une petite fille, Rosamond. Elle s'adresse à sa femme de chambre, Sarah Leeson, et lui demande...
Eine Landhause an der Westküste von Cornwall...Ein Geheimnisvoller Brief...Und ein schreckliches Geheimnis.... Wilkie Collins war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller.
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