Wilkie Collins - Libros y biografía

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....

The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins’ fourth published novel.

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...

‘La pietra di Luna’ uscì in Inghilterra nel 1868 a puntate sul periodico di Londra ‘All the Year Round’, il cui direttore era Charles Dickens. Viene considerato il primo romanzo giallo della storia. Come...

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866),...

Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called...

Le secret En cette nuit du 23 août 1829, sur la côte déchiquetée des Cornouailles, la résidence d'été des Treverton n'est plus que silence et ténèbres. Le manoir tout entier est suspendu aux battements...

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and...

A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the ’Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced...

First serialized and then published as a book in 1860, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White represents a seminal classic of English fiction. It is classified by some critics among mystery novels and by...

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...

Dieses eBook: "Blinde Liebe" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) war ein britischer Schriftsteller...

Wilkie Collins gilt heute als einer der großen viktorianischen Schriftsteller. Er war ein enger Freund Charles Dickens', in dessen Schatten er nach seinem Tod lange stand. Zwei Freunde, die beide den...

“Fateli ridere, fateli piangere, ma soprattutto teneteli in sospeso”, diceva Wilkie Collins parlando della trama che un buon libro deve avere. In ‘Senza nome’ Collins tiene in sospeso il lettore per tutta...

The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case, reprinted with a side by side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by Northwestern Press.

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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866),...

Wikie Collin's "After Dark" is a collection of six short stories. The book is a series of tales told by a poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six...

Often considered one of the first mystery novels, The Woman In White follows protagonist Walter Hartright, an art teacher, as he has a mysterious late night encounter on a London street with a lost woman,...

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and...

A large country house situated on the west coast of Cornwall, a mysterious letter and a dead Secret.... The Dead Secret is an exciting story that has the ability to keep the reader hooked and a brilliantly...

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...

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866),...

Le précurseur de la «detective novel», le «Gaboriau anglais», les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour qualifier le premier grand auteur de romans policiers anglais, des années avant Arthur Conan Doyle...

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866),...

The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins’ fourth published novel. The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress...

Racconto molto breve, ma ha tutto quello che deve avere un grande thriller: una sensazione crescente di angoscia, un’eroina in grave pericolo, una gestione da manuale della suspense e un finale straordinario....

The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone...

Eine reiche Witwe...Ein Verschwinden....und ein Detektiv.

In 'The Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins,' readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the captivating world of Collins' mystery novels. Known for his complex plots, intriguing characters, and skillful...