Wilkie Collins - Libros y biografía

Madonna, the Queen of Pop, was not the first to be named in honour of the graceful Madonna in art. The focal point of this novel, Mary, is affectionately known as "Madonna" on account of her beauty. Moreover,...

"Little Novels" isn't quite a "Little Women" spin-off, as the title might suggest. While you won't be treated to Timothée Chalamet, you will be treated to fourteen short stories – or little novels (ah...

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...

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...

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.

English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery. Wilkie (William) Collins was born in London on January 8, 1824. His father (also called William) was a landscape painter, but it seems his father...

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.

Perché Lord Montbarry ha lasciato senza alcun motivo plausibile la fidanzata Agnes? E perché ha deciso di sposarsi con l’equivoca Contessa Narona, una donna instabile che pare in ogni momento sull’orlo...

English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery. Wilkie (William) Collins was born in London on January 8, 1824. His father (also called William) was a landscape painter, but it seems his father...

The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre...

After Dark by Wilkie Collins is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously...

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...

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialised in Charles...

It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad. The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town, and the diligence was expected...

The Moonstone is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork for the genre itself. The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an...

The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love...

A novel about a young woman, Jessie Yelverton (also known as the Queen of Hearts), aged 20, who soon inherits an inheritance from her dead parents. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Jessie is forced...

A young woman gets married and suddenly finds herself in a situation where her loving and beloved husband turns out to be the bearer of a different surname, and a terrible, dark and discrediting secret...

„When Night Falls” is a complex novel. Six fascinating stories, full of mystery and tension, are collected by the author into a single picture, worthy of taking its place among the most exquisite works...

This is a very hilarious story by Wilkie Collins. This book reads like sensational journalism from the 1800s or an old radio show. The characters are fun and cute, and the story moves quickly and leaves...

Armadale by Wilkie Collins is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), and...

One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction...

English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery. Wilkie (William) Collins was born in London on January 8, 1824. His father (also called William) was a landscape painter, but it seems his father...

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...

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. Zu ihrem einunzwanzigsten Geburtstag...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all...

The Wilkie Collins Collection presents four of the best titles by the Victorian master novelist - The Moonstone, No Name, The Woman In White and After Dark.

A rich widow...A disappearance....and Mr. Dark, a detective lawyer’s clerk.

Little Novels written by  English novelist Wilkie Collins. Published in 1887. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive...

It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad. The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town, and the diligence was expected...