Download or read book The Yellow Mask written by Wilkie Collins and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yellow Mask (1887) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written toward the end of his life, The Yellow Mask recaptures some of the author’s trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease that made him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience that continue to resonate with scholars and readers today. Father Rocco is a Catholic priest in the Italian city of Pisa. Through his brother, a sculptor and teacher, he becomes aware of Count Fabio D’Ascoli, a wealthy heir and an eager student of art. Vindictive and ruled by jealousy, Rocco fabricates a story accusing D’Ascoli’s family of stealing from the Church centuries before. Determined to obtain the D’Ascoli fortune, Father Rocco creates a rift between the Count and his young lover Nanina, then places his innocent niece Maddalena in a position to marry D’Ascoli. When Maddalena dies in childbirth, however, a strange figure in a yellow mask begins haunting her distraught widower, driving him to the brink of insanity. Beyond its sensational plot, The Yellow Mask is a novel that effectively critiques the institution of marriage and the morality of leaders in the Roman Catholic Church. Collins’ novel is a masterpiece of Gothic horror and mystery for seasoned readers of Victorian fiction and newcomers alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Wilkie Collins’ The Yellow Mask is a classic work of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book The Yellow Mask written by Уильям Уилки Коллинз and published by Litres. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Погрузитесь в мир интриг и коварства со сборником Уилки Коллинза «Желтая маска»! Здесь вас ждут казино и итальянские балы, жулики и мошенники, горечь потери и предательства, а также убийство, оставшееся безнаказанным. Всё в этой книге не то, чем кажется, и никому нельзя доверять.Сборник включает в себя четыре рассказа Уилки Коллинза: «The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed» – рассказ о жажде денег, которая не остановится перед убийством, «The Professor’s Story of the Yellow Mask» – история о коварстве итальянского священника и любви, слепой к сословным предрассудкам, «The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange» – в котором предательство и обман приводят к катастрофическим последствиям, и «The Nun’s Story of Gabriel’s Marriage» – рассказ о смертном грехе отца, лишившем покоя сына.Все рассказы публикуются на английском языке без адаптации и сокращений.
Download or read book The Yellow Mask Sister Rose written by Collins W. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a complete mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collins’s success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. Sister Rose is set against the background of the French Revolution and concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville's land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine's father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danville's animosity.
Download or read book The Professor s Story of the Yellow Mask written by Wilkie Collins and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1855. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practiced. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A., to good reviews. The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, The Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The Moonstone, meanwhile is seen by many as the first true detective novel - T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels...in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe." Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
Download or read book Diamond Mask written by Julian May and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century was drawing to a close, and metapsychic humankind was poised at last to achieve Unity -- to be admitted into the group mind of the already unified alien races of the Galactic Milieu. But a growing corps of rebels was plotting to keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human individuality. And the rebels had a secret supporter: Fury, the insane metapsychic creatrue that would stop at nothing to claim humanity for itself. Fury's greatest enemy was the mutant genius Jack the Bodiless, whose power it craved. But Jack would never be a tool for Fury . . . And so it turned to Dorothea Macdonald, a young woman who had spent a lifetime hiding her towering mindpowers from the best mind readers of the Milieu. But she could not hide them from Fury -- or from Jack. Time and again she rejected their advances, unwilling to be drawn into the maelstrom of galactic politics or megalomaniacal dreams. And in the end, no one -- not Jack, not Fury, not even the Galactic Milieu -- would be a match for the awesome powers of the girl who would come to be called Diamond Mask . . .
Download or read book The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone of American supernatural fiction from the author who has been hailed as the link between Poe and Stephen King. 12 gripping stories, with an introduction by E. F. Bleiler.
Download or read book Lily s Cat Mask written by Julie Fortenberry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily likes to wear the cat mask that her father bought for her, but she isn't allowed to wear it in school until her class has a costume party, where she makes a new friend.
Download or read book The Mask of Cthulhu written by August Derleth and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1996-01-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with The Return of Hastur, which Derleth completed posthumously from H.P. Lovecraft's notes, these stories masterfully expand the horrific cycle of the Cthulhu mythos and its monstrous pantheon.
Download or read book In the Court Of The Dragon written by Robert W. Chambers and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Court of the Dragon" by Robert W. Chambers is a chilling tale about a man who attends a church service, only to be pursued by a menacing organist. As he flees through the streets, the sense of dread intensifies. The boundaries between reality and nightmare blur as the protagonist confronts an overwhelming, inexplicable terror, leading to a haunting conclusion that questions the nature of existence itself.
Download or read book Paper Mask Making written by Michael Grater and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This do-it-yourself guide gives detailed instructions for making paper masks — how to cut, fold, score, model, paint, and decorate them. Make masks of people, clowns, birds, and animals: lion, cat, dog, fox, bear, monkey, more. 93 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book The Yellow Sign written by Robert William Chambers and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That evening I took my usual walk in Washington Park, pondering over the occurrences of the day. I was thoroughly committed. There was no back out now, and I stared the future straight in the face. I was not good, not even scrupulous, but I had no idea of deceiving either myself or Tessie. The one passion of my life lay buried in the sunlit forests of Brittany. Was it buried forever? Hope cried “No!” For three years I had been listening to the voice of Hope, and for three years I had waited for a footstep on my threshold. Had Sylvia forgotten? “No!” cried Hope. I said that I was not good. That is true, but still I was not exactly a comic opera villain. I had led an easy-going reckless life, taking what invited me of pleasure, deploring and sometimes bitterly regretting consequences. In one thing alone, except my painting, was I serious, and that was something which lay hidden if not lost in the Breton forests. It was too late now for me to regret what had occurred during the day. Whatever it had been, pity, a sudden tenderness for sorrow, or the more brutal instinct of gratified vanity, it was all the same now, and unless I wished to bruise an innocent heart my path lay marked before me. The fire and strength, the depth of passion of a love which I had never even suspected, with all my imagined experience in the world, left me no alternative but to respond or send her away. Whether because I am so cowardly about giving pain to others, or whether it was that I have little of the gloomy Puritan in me, I do not know, but I shrank from disclaiming responsibility for that thoughtless kiss, and in fact had no time to do so before the gates of her heart opened and the flood poured forth. Others who habitually do their duty and find a sullen satisfaction in making themselves and everybody else unhappy, might have withstood it. I did not. I dared not. After the storm had abated I did tell her that she might better have loved Ed Burke and worn a plain gold ring, but she would not hear of it, and I thought perhaps that as long as she had decided to love.somebody she could not marry, it had better be me. I, at least, could treat her with an intelligent affection, and whenever she became tired of her infatuation she could go none the worse for it. For I was decided on that point although I knew how hard it would be. I remembered the usual termination of Platonic liaisons and thought how disgusted I had been whenever I heard of one. I knew I was undertaking a great deal for so unscrupulous a man as I was, and I dreaded the future, but never for one moment did I doubt that she was safe with me. Had it been anybody but Tessie I should not have bothered my head about scruples. For it did not occur to me to sacrifice Tessie as I would have sacrificed a woman of the world. I looked the future squarely in the face and saw the several probable endings to the affair. She would either tire of the whole thing, or become so unhappy that I should have either to marry her or go away. If I married her we would be unhappy. I with a wife unsuited to me, and she with a husband unsuitable for any woman. For my past life could scarcely entitle me to marry. If I went away she might either fall ill, recover, and marry some Eddie Burke, or she might recklessly or deliberately go and do something foolish. On the other hand if she tired of me, then her whole life would be before her with beautiful vistas of Eddie Burkes and marriage rings and twins and Harlem flats and Heaven knows what. As I strolled along through the trees by the Washington Arch, I decided that she should find a substantial friend in me anyway and the future could take care of itself. Then I went into the house and put on my evening dress for the little faintly perfumed note on my dresser said, “Have a cab at the stage door at eleven,” and the note was signed “Edith Carmichael, Metropolitan Theater, June 19th, 189—.”
Download or read book Mexican Masks written by Donald Bush Cordry and published by Austin : University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book After Dark written by Wilkie Collins and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the hidden realms and mysteries that unfold 'After Dark' in Wilkie Collins's intriguing narrative. Embark on a journey into the mysterious and thrilling world of Wilkie Collins with "After Dark." Immerse yourself in a collection of stories that unfold under the cover of darkness, where the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary blurs. As Collins crafts his narratives, witness the convergence of the mundane and the supernatural, creating a tapestry of tales that linger in the shadows. The pages come alive with the suspense, intrigue, and unexpected twists that characterize Collins's signature storytelling. But here's the enigmatic question that will keep you turning the pages: What secrets and mysteries emerge after dark, and how do these nocturnal encounters shape the fates of the characters involved? Could Collins's work be a portal into the hidden realms of the night? Explore the atmospheric depth within Collins's collection, where each paragraph reveals layers of suspense, the supernatural, and the complexities of human nature. This edition invites you to immerse yourself in the captivating stories that unfold when the sun sets. Are you ready to unravel the mysteries that lurk in the shadows of the night? Dive into the pages of "After Dark" and let Collins's storytelling lead you through a nocturnal odyssey where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary. Indulge in short, impactful paragraphs that navigate the atmospheric landscapes of Collins's stories. "After Dark" is not just a collection; it's an exploration of the unseen and the thrilling possibilities that emerge when darkness falls. Here's your chance to own a piece of literary mystery. Acquire "After Dark" now and let the tales of the night transport you to a realm where every shadow conceals a new adventure.
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Download or read book The Yellow Mask written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 188? with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
