The New Magdalen
Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
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ISBN : 9781258407575
Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 566 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 1865
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Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781840225334
A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death.
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Art
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"The Girl at the Gate" was one of the most popular works of its time. It was published in New York in December 1884 before its January 1885 appearance in "The English Illustrated Magazine." It was explicitly written for this special December 27, 1884 "Christmas Spirit" issue of The Spirit of the Times, The American Gentleman's Newspaper. This story is also considered one of the first modern English detective novels. Here, one can find all the elements typical for a novel: a love triangle, a mysterious illness, and poisoned medicine.
Author : Sara Taylor
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451496876
Shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year From critically acclaimed and Baileys Prize-nominated author Sara Taylor comes a dazzling new novel about youth, identity, and family secrets After a fight with Alex’s father, Ma pulls Alex out of bed and onto a pilgrimage of self-discovery through her own enthralling past. Guided by a memory map of places and people from Ma’s life before motherhood, the pair travels from Virginia to California, each new destination and character revealing secrets, stories, and unfinished business. As Alex’s coming-of-age narrative unfolds across the continent, we meet a cast of riveting and heartwarming characters including brilliant Annie, who seeks the help of Ma and Alex to escape the patriarchal cult in which she was raised, and the tragic young Marisol, whose dreams of becoming a mother end in heartbreak. Slowly, Alex begins to realizes that the road trip is not a string of arbitrary stops, but a journey whose destination is perhaps Ma’s biggest secret of all. Told from the perspective of Alex, a teenager who equates gender identification with unwillingly choosing a side in a war, and written with a stunningly assured lyricism, The Lauras is a fearless study of identity, set against the gorgeously rendered landscape of North America.
Author : Charles CHARLES DICKENS
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
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Collection of classics by authors and texts that have endured over time. Literary works that have left us their legacy to our cultural tradition and its prestige endures. A tour of the masterpieces of classical letters and their great authors such as: Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Jack London, Bram Stocker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, mong other great authors of literature.
Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Detective and mystery stories
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The "Sensation Novel" ushered in the modern mystery genre. It was inaugurated by Wilkie Collins's best-seller The Woman in White in 1860. But this collection, selected by Peter Haining, reveals that Collins had actually been writing realistic stories of suspense for at least a decade before this. With dramatic plots that revolved around hidden secrets, bloody crimes, villainous schemes, and clever detective work all occurring in everyday settings, Wilkie Collins helped to shape a new genre that was worlds away from anything being written by his contemporaries--and one that was to have a far-reaching influence. Sensation Stories ranges from Collins's earliest tales and those published under the auspices of his great friend Charles Dickens to the title piece from his last, melancholic collection. Among several famous yarns and stories not published for over a hundred years is one featuring a pioneer female detective and another that has been called the first British detective story. There is a ghost story controversial for its eroticism, the first humorous or satirical detective story and a story that clearly presages The Woman in White, published two years later. Thrilling reads in their own right, all 10 stories showcase Wilkie Collins's towering contribution to the development of the mystery genre. Indeed, he is now regarded as the inventor of the modern detective story and the forefather of a crime fiction tradition that runs through Arthur Conan Doyle to Thomas Harris today.