The Autobiographical Works of Wilkie Collins


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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents: Biographies: Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) Wilkie Collins' Charms (Biography by Olive Logan) Letters and Literary Writings: A Clause for the New Reform Bill A Column to Burns A Dramatic Author A Fair Penitent A Pictorial Tour to St George Bosherville A Shy Scheme Address from the Queen to Certain of Her Subjects in Office Awful Warning to Bachelors Books Necessary for a Liberal Education Burns Viewed As a Hat-Peg Considerations on The Copyright Question Deep Design on Society Doctor Dulcamara, MP Dramatic Grub Street How I Write My Books Magnetic Evenings at Home Pity a Poor Prince Rambles Beyond Railways Reminiscences of a Storyteller Sermon for Sepoys Thanks to Doctor Livingstone The Cruise of the Tomtit The Debtor's Best Friend The Exhibition of the Royal Academy The Little Huguenot The National Gallery and the Old Masters




Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)


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A pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins produced masterpieces like ‘The Woman in White’ and ‘The Moonstone’, establishing himself as the master of sensation fiction. Collins perfected the mystery story, producing countless classics that would have a lasting impact on the history of the novel. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Collins’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 5) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Collins’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 24 novels, with individual contents tables * Includes rare novels often missed out of collections * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original Victorian texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Rare tales from periodicals and magazines, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Collins’ rare plays – available in no other collection * Includes Collins’ non-fiction – spend hours exploring the author’s rare magazine essays and articles * Special biographical section, with essays and biographical pieces evaluating Collins’ literary and private life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels ANTONINA BASIL HIDE AND SEEK A ROGUE’S LIFE THE DEAD SECRET THE WOMAN IN WHITE NO NAME ARMADALE THE MOONSTONE MAN AND WIFE POOR MISS FINCH THE NEW MAGDALEN THE LAW AND THE LADY THE TWO DESTINIES THE HAUNTED HOTEL THE FALLEN LEAVES JEZEBEL’S DAUGHTER THE BLACK ROBE HEART AND SCIENCE “I SAY NO” THE EVIL GENIUS THE GUILTY RIVER THE LEGACY OF CAIN BLIND LOVE The Short Story Collections AFTER DARK THE QUEEN OF HEARTS MISS OR MRS.? AND OTHER STORIES IN OUTLINE THE FROZEN DEEP AND OTHER STORIES LITTLE NOVELS MISCELLANEOUS SHORT STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE FROZEN DEEP NO THOROUGHFARE BLACK AND WHITE NO NAME THE WOMAN IN WHITE THE NEW MAGDALEN MISS GWILT THE MOONSTONE The Non-Fiction MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COLLINS ESQ, RA RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS MY MISCELLANIES MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND ARTICLES The Biographies WILKIE COLLINS’ CHARMS by Olive Logan MEN OF MARK: W. WILKIE COLLINS by Edmund Yates WILKIE COLLINS by William Teignmouth Shore Extracts from ‘MEMORIES OF HALF A CENTURY’ by Rudolph Chambers Lehmann Extracts from ‘LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS’ by John Forster Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks




The Complete Works


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This meticulously edited Henry James collection includes his complete novels and short stories, as well as literary essays, plays, travel sketches and reports of the great author. The life of Henry James is revealed in different biographies, and in his three autobiographical books._x000D_ Content:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Watch and Ward_x000D_ Roderick Hudson_x000D_ The American_x000D_ The Europeans_x000D_ Confidence_x000D_ Washington Square_x000D_ The Portrait of a Lady_x000D_ The Bostonians_x000D_ The Princess Casamassima_x000D_ The Reverberator_x000D_ The Tragic Muse _x000D_ The Other House_x000D_ The Spoils of Poynton_x000D_ What Maisie Knew_x000D_ The Awkward Age_x000D_ The Sacred Fount_x000D_ The Wings of the Dove_x000D_ The Ambassadors_x000D_ The Golden Bowl_x000D_ The Outcry_x000D_ The Ivory Tower_x000D_ The Sense of the Past_x000D_ Short Stories_x000D_ A Passionate Pilgrim_x000D_ The Last of the Valerii_x000D_ Eugene Pickering_x000D_ The Madonna of the Future_x000D_ The Romance of Certain Old Clothes_x000D_ Madame de Mauves_x000D_ Tales of Three Cities_x000D_ The Impressions of a Cousin_x000D_ Lady Barberina_x000D_ A New England Winter_x000D_ Stories Revived_x000D_ The Author of 'Beltraffio'_x000D_ Pandora_x000D_ The Path of Duty_x000D_ A Light Man_x000D_ A Day of Days_x000D_ Georgina's Reasons_x000D_ A Landscape-Painter_x000D_ Théodolinde _x000D_ Poor Richard_x000D_ Master Eustace_x000D_ A Most Extraordinary Case_x000D_ A London Life_x000D_ The Patagonia_x000D_ The Liar_x000D_ Mrs. Temperly_x000D_ The Real Thing _x000D_ Sir Dominick Ferrand_x000D_ Nona Vincent_x000D_ The Chaperon_x000D_ Greville Fane_x000D_ The Siege of London_x000D_ An International Episode_x000D_ The Pension Beaurepas_x000D_ A Bundle of Letters_x000D_ The Point of View_x000D_ Terminations_x000D_ Embarrassments_x000D_ The Two Magics_x000D_ The Soft Side_x000D_ The Finer Grain_x000D_ Other Stories_x000D_ Plays:_x000D_ Daisy Miller_x000D_ Pyramus and Thisbe_x000D_ Still Waters_x000D_ A Change of Heart_x000D_ The Album_x000D_ Disengaged_x000D_ Tenants_x000D_ The Reprobate_x000D_ Guy Domville_x000D_ The Outcry_x000D_ The High Bid_x000D_ Summersoft_x000D_ Travel Writings:_x000D_ A Little Tour in France_x000D_ English Hours_x000D_ Italian Hours_x000D_ The American Scene_x000D_ Transatlantic Sketches_x000D_ Portraits of Places_x000D_ Essays:_x000D_ Notes on Novelists_x000D_ Views and Reviews_x000D_ Within the Rim and Other Essays_x000D_ French Poets and Novelists_x000D_ Partial Portraits_x000D_ Essays in London and Elsewhere_x000D_ Notes and Reviews_x000D_ Picture and Text_x000D_ Biographies:_x000D_ Hawthorne_x000D_ William Wetmore Story and His Friends_x000D_ Rupert Brooke_x000D_ Autobiographies:_x000D_ A Small Boy and Others_x000D_ Notes of a Son and Brother_x000D_ The Middle Years







Inquiring into Human Enhancement


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Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.




Wilkie Collins's Library


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Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best known today as the author of ^IThe Moonstone,^R which T.S. Eliot called the first and greatest English detective novel. He has been the subject of two recent biographies, and a revival of interest in his works is now under way. In particular, there is growing concern with his intellectual development, as witnessed by the 1999 publication of his collected letters. This reconstruction of his library offers a thorough analysis of the books he owned and his response to them and thus illuminates Collins as a reader and writer. The book begins with a narrative discussion of the contents of Collins's library and its auction. This introductory essay sheds light on the types of books he owned, his use of those texts in his writings, and the dispersion of his collection in 1890. The bulk of the volume provides annotated entries for each item from his library. Entries include publication and bibliographic information, descriptions from sale catalogs, information about the author of the item, citations of the book or author from Collins's letters, and information on the present location or subsequent history of the item. An appendix catalogs paintings and artwork in Collins's possession at the time of his death.




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The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880


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This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.