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,...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping,...

A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins, with an afterword by writer, editor and playwright David Stuart Davies.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s...

One of the great Victorian novels, The Moonstone has engrossed, entertained and enraptured readers since its first publication in 1868. This edition features an introduction by the renowned historian,...

In 'The Girl at the Gate' by Wilkie Collins, readers are immersed in a captivating tale of mystery, love, and betrayal. The novel, written in a compelling narrative style and set in the Victorian era,...

Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have come to entertain. Outside her...

After Dark - Wilkie Collins - After Dark 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...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our...

Valéria refuse de croire aux rumeurs qui pèsent sur l'homme qu'elle vient d'épouser et va mener l'enquête pour rétablir la vérité à son sujet. Mais découvrira-t-elle ce lourd secret en relation avec son...

Un manoir sur la côte déchiquetée de Cornouailles....Une Mystérieuse lettre....Un terrible secret....Wilkie Collins, le père du roman policier anglais, nous livre ici une intrigue remplie de rebondissements,...

Sur le front franco-allemand, durant la guerre de 1870, le hasard réunit deux jeunes Anglaises, Grace et Mercy. Lorsqu’un obus frappe la première, Mercy décide aussitôt d’usurper son identité pour rompre...

Lucilla, jeune fille de bonne famille, aveugle de naissance, est amoureuse d'Oscar, brave garçon dont la beauté et les qualités se résument pour elle au son de sa voix. Opérée de la cataracte, elle retrouve...

Un homme de bonne famille se débarasse sans effusion de sang de son épouse devenue encombrante, pour épouser une riche héritière. Une lecture astucieuse de la loi sufit à le rendre libre. Mais les femmes,...

Un jeune amoureux se livre au chantage, une malédiction poursuit les membres d'une famille, un imposteur simule l'amour avec art, un mort renaît à la vie, un policier manipulé, deux frères accusés d'un...

Londres, 1845. Un bal célèbre le départ prochain de deux navires vers le pôle Arctique, lancés à la recherche du mythique passage du nord-ouest. L'Angleterre sera sans nouvelle de l'équipage durant près...

Écrit en 1852, Basil est, sous la crinoline des robes victoriennes, le plus sexué des romans de Collins : un jeune homme innocent, introverti et issu de l’aristocratie anglaise s’engage dans un mariage...