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Eine verbotene Liebe und eine geheime Hochzeit....Eine Erbschaft und ein Mordversuch... Wilkie Collins war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller.
Pubblicato in Italia nel 1868, Accanto al fuoco raccoglie tre racconti di Wilkie Collins tradotti da A. M. Lessona. Wilkie William Collins (Marylebone, 8 gennaio 1824 – Londra, 23 settembre 1889) è stato...
Verschwörungen, Komplotte, Intrigen...und eine verwirrende Liebe zwischen Iris und Lord Harry. Wilkie Collins war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller.
No Name by Wilkie Collins No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year...
La pietra di Luna, (titolo originale The Moonstone) conosciuto in Italia anche con il titolo Il diamante indiano, è un romanzo di Wilkie Collins pubblicato a puntate in Inghilterra nel 1868. Il colonnello...
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1859 and set from 1849 to 1850. It is a mystery novel and falls under the genre of "sensation...
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...
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the...
These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end that’s what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Collins, including...
In Wilkie Collins' 'The Traveller's Story of a Very Strange Bed,' readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a mysterious and suspenseful tale. Written in Collins' trademark style of intricate plotting...
Persons possessed of sluggish livers and tender hearts find two serious drawbacks to the enjoyment of a cruise at sea. It is exceedingly difficult to get enough walking exercise; and it is next to impossible...
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...
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister...
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one 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...
Man and Wife Wilkie Collins - The novel has a complex plot, which is common in Collins's work.[3] In the Prologue, a selfish and ambitious man casts off his wife in order to marry a wealthier and better-connected...
Wilkie Collins' 'The Moonstone' is a captivating epistolary novel that combines elements of mystery, satire, and romance in a compelling narrative. The story revolves around the theft of a precious diamond,...
No Name Wilkie Collins - Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will,...
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early modern example of the detective novel, and established many of the ground...
The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins - The Queen of Hearts Collins' collection of 10 short stories with one connecting narrative: The Queen of Hearts', the school nickname of Jessie who is staying with...
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...
The Haunted Hotel is about a kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create...
Armadale Wilkie Collins - Armadale (1866) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-epistolary novel. Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events...
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...
Wilkie Collins's later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling - but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking...
A House to Let is a short story written by Wilkie Collins. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Collins wrote the introduction and collaborated...
Wilkie Collins' 'Blind Love' is a gripping tale of betrayal, deception, and forbidden desires set in the Victorian era. The novel depicts the complexities of human relationships and societal norms through...
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