Wilkie Collins - Libros y biografía

The Woman in White is widely regarded as the first in the genre of 'sensation novels'. It follows the story of two sisters living in Victorian England with their selfish, uninterested uncle as their guardian....

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and friends. Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents lead...

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...

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...

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...

Eine skrupellose Manipulation...Eine junge Zeichenlehrer....Und eine mysteriöse Frau in Weiß.

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 the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the...

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every...

One of the wildest of these stories related to a Yellow Diamond-a famous gem in the native annals of India. The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed...

Traduzioni inedite integrali. Una selezione di racconti del celebre autore di gialli Wilkie Collins, già usciti singolarmente e ora disponibili in unico volume. Il segreto di famiglia, Un intrigo di coppia,...

The Dead Secret is a novel published by Wilkie Collins, first in 1857 as a series in Charles Dickens' Household Words weekly magazine and later the same year as a book. William Wilkie Collins (8 January...

Quando un’assassina in procinto di essere giustiziata chiede a un sacerdote senza figli di prendersi cura della sua bambina, l’uomo non sa rifiutare. L’uomo pero? ha poco dopo una figlia naturale. Le...

Marito e Moglie fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1870, spesso citato come il primo romanzo di Wilkie Collins nel quale vengono affrontate questioni sociali, è un lavoro in cui l’autore attacca le...

Wilkie Collins' novel, The Woman in White, is a seminal work of Victorian sensation fiction and a pioneering example of the mystery genre. The novel tells the story of a young art teacher, Walter Hartright,...

In Wilkie Collins' collection of British Murder Mysteries, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the world of 19th-century crime fiction. With intricate plots, complex characters, and unexpected...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Woman in White (illustrated) + The Moonstone + The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a...

The Law and the Lady is a detective story. Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and friends. Just a few days...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Basil: A Story of Modern Life (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Basil, son of a father who values the family...

This carefully crafted ebook: "No Name (Mystery Thriller Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. No Name is a 19th-century novel revolving around the...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist,...