Download or read book 5 Best Books by Wilkie Collins written by Wilkie Collins and published by Editorial Ink. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 2933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description After Dark is a book by English novelist Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It is a collection of six short stories that are linked by a narrative framework. This was Collins' first short fiction collection, with five of the stories previously being published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The stories include; The Traveler's Story Of A Terribly Strange Bed (first published as 'A Terribly Strange Bed'); The Lawyer's Story Of A Stolen Letter (first published as 'The Fourth Poor Traveller'); The French Governess's Story Of Sister Rose (first published as 'Sister Rose'); The Angler's Story Of The Lady Of Glenwith Grange; The Nun's Story Of Gabriel's Marriage (first published as 'Gabriel's Marriage'); and, The Professor's Story Of The Yellow Mask (first published as 'The Yellow Mask'). This book has 137,017 words, and was originally published in 1856. Production notes: This ebook of After Dark was published by Global Grey on the 19th July 2018, and updated on the 24th November 2022. The artwork used for the cover is 'St Anne’s Square And Exchange' by John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Download or read book The New Magdalen written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Name written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jezebel s Daughter written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lauras written by Sara Taylor and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Heart and Science written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WILKIE COLLINS Collection Vol 5 3 Books the Woman in White MR Percy and the Prophet Miss Dulane and My Lord written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.
Download or read book Poor Miss Finch written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilkie Collins written by Andrew Lycett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "1868, and bestselling author Wilkie Collins is hard at work on a new detective novel, The Moonstone. But he is weighed down by a mountain of problems his own sickness, the death of his mother, and, most pressing, the announcement by his live-in mistress that she has tired of his relationship with another woman and intends to marry someone else. His solution is to increase his industrial intake of opium and knuckle down to writing the book T. S. Eliot called the greatest' English detective novel. Of Wilkie's domestic difficulties, not a word to the outside world: indeed, like his great friend Charles Dickens, he took pains to keep secret any detail of his menage. There's no doubt that the arrangement was unusual and, for Wilkie, precarious, particularly since his own books focused on uncovering such deeply held family secrets. Indeed, he was the master of the Victorian sensation novel, fiction that left readers on the edge of their seats as mysteries and revelations abounded. In this colourful investigative portrait, Andrew Lycett draws Wilkie Collins out from the shadow of Charles Dickens. Wilkie is revealed as a brilliant, witty, friendly, contrary and sensual man,
Download or read book The Works of Wilkie Collins V 5 written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fallen Leaves written by Wilkie Collins and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK THE FIRST. AMELIUS AMONG THE SOCIALISTS CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 Mr. Hethcote was the first to speak again. BOOK THE SECOND. AMELIUS IN LONDON CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 BOOK THE THIRD. MRS. FARNABY'S FOOT CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 Amelius rose impulsively from his chair. CHAPTER 3 The young lady spoke first. CHAPTER 4 BOOK THE FOURTH. LOVE AND MONEY CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 BOOK THE FIFTH. THE FATAL LECTURE CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 BOOK THE SIXTH. FILIA DOLOROSA CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 The landlady of the lodgings decided what was to be done. CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 "Rufus! I don't quite like the way you look at me. You seem to think—" CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 BOOK THE SEVENTH. THE VANISHING HOPES CHAPTER 1 Two days later, Amelius moved into his cottage. CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 "Let me see the blister," said Amelius. CHAPTER 6 Toff returned to the cottage, with the slippers and the stockings. BOOK THE EIGHTH. DAME NATURE DECIDES CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 "Where has he been found?" Amelius asked, snatching up his hat. CHAPTER 5 The last dreary days of November came to their end. CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 Early the next morning, Rufus rang at the cottage gate. CHAPTER 9 Toff was the first who recovered himself. CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12
Download or read book Wilkie Collins Best Novels written by Wilkie Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in London. He received his early education at home from his mother. He then attended an academy and a private boarding school. He also traveled with his family to Italy and France, and learned the French and Italian languages. He served as a clerk in the firm of the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. His first novel Iolani, or Tahiti as It Was; a Romance, was rejected by publishers in 1845. His next novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens, and the two became close friends. A number of Collins's works were first published in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words. The two collaborated on several dramatic and fictional works, and some of Collins's plays were performed by Dickens's acting company. In this book: The Moonstone The Woman in White
Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?
Download or read book Armadale written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heart and Science written by Wilkie Collins and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weary old nineteenth century had advanced into the last twenty years of its life. Towards two o'clock in the afternoon, Ovid Vere (of the Royal College of Surgeons) stood at the window of his consulting-room in London, looking out at the summer sunshine, and the quiet dusty street. He had received a warning, familiar to the busy men of our time—the warning from overwrought Nature, which counsels rest after excessive work. With a prosperous career before him, he had been compelled (at only thirty-one years of age) to ask a colleague to take charge of his practice, and to give the brain which he had cruelly wearied a rest of some months to come. On the next day he had arranged to embark for the Mediterranean in a friend's yacht. An active man, devoted heart and soul to his profession, is not a man who can learn the happy knack of being idle at a moment's notice. Ovid found the mere act of looking out of window, and wondering what he should do next, more than he had patience to endure. He turned to his study table. If he had possessed a wife to look after him, he would have been reminded that he and his study table had nothing in common, under present circumstances. Being deprived of conjugal superintendence, he broke though his own rules. His restless hand unlocked a drawer, and took out a manuscript work on medicine of his own writing. "Surely," he thought, "I may finish a chapter, before I go to sea to-morrow?"
Download or read book Wilkie Collins The Complete Short Stories written by Wilkie Collins and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 3600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Wilkie Collins: The Complete Short Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. 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: After The Dark The Ostler Mr. Wray's Cash Box The Queen of Hearts A House To Let The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room") My Miscellanies No Thoroughfare Miss or Mrs? "Blow up with the Brig!" The Hidden Cash The Perils of Certain English Prisoners The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices The Last Stage Coachman The Fatal Cradle The Frozen Deep and Other Stories The Captain's Last Love The Dead Hand The Devil's Spectacles The First Officer's Confession Farmer Fairweather Fatal Fortune Fie! Fie! Or The Fair Physician Love's Random Shot The Midnight Mass Nine O'Clock A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino Potts The Haunted Hotel My Lady's Money Who Killed Zebedee Little Novels The Poetry Did It A Sad Death and A Brave Life The Twin Sisters Volpurno - Or The Student John Steadiman's Account (The Wreck of The Golden Mary) A Message from The Sea The Seafaring Man The Dead Alive
Download or read book The Two Destinies written by Wilkie Collins and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two people who begin to love each other as boy and girl. Some mysterious agency seems to be at work, all through the story, in their behalf; for though apparently separated as children forever, they are brought together again by a most singular chain of circumstances. Apparitions and other strange hallucinations abound in the work. Altogether a pleasantly weird and odd story, and very much different from Wilkie Collins' other novels.
