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The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt. Allied to two different ships, the two men at first have no cause to meet - until disaster strikes and they find themselves united in a battle for survival. It cannot be long before they discover the nature...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
In this novel William Wilkie Collins explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skilful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn’t seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins’ later fiction. Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband’s past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husbandpoisoner.This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices = Ленивое путешествие двух досужих подмастерьев: кн. на англ.я
In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens’ periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these wellloved men of letters. Through their fi ctional counterparts, the men relentlessly satirize Dickens’ maniacal energy and Collins’ idleness. The result is an exuberant diary of a journey and...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
The Dead Secret was Collinss first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and ingenious, Rosamonds determined detective work uncovers a shocking truth.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins's intriguing story about Lucilla Finch, a blind girl and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Collins gives one of the best accounts in fiction of blindness and its implications. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profi table marriage. What hides her past? She lived in a shelter, dragged on a miserable existence and in a moment of desperation she appropriated other people’s documents, another’s life story. But the specter of the past breaks into a real life - a deceived miser requires an answer. Will the Princes have enough courage to turn into Cinderella,...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Проза, Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Манит призрак Венеции? Познакомьтесь с её тайнами в "Таинственном отеле" Уилки Коллинза! Город дворцов, каналов, смерти и загадок ждёт вас.Уилки Коллинз – создатель первого детективного романа на английском языке, плодовитый писатель, мастер мистики и загадок. Его язык вполне современен и понятен, поэтому эта книга станет хорошим выбором для тех, кто хочет попробовать начать читать в оригинале. В "Таинственном отеле" вы столкнетесь с таинственной смертью и исчезновением, произошедшем в одном из...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз, Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2023 |
Манит призрак Венеции? Познакомьтесь с её тайнами в "Таинственном отеле" Уилки Коллинза! Город дворцов, каналов, смерти и загадок ждёт вас.Уилки Коллинз – создатель первого детективного романа на английском языке, плодовитый писатель, мастер мистики и загадок. Его язык вполне современен и понятен, поэтому эта книга станет хорошим выбором для тех, кто хочет попробовать начать читать в оригинале. В "Таинственном отеле" вы столкнетесь с таинственной смертью и исчезновением, произошедшем в одном из...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2023 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Two Destinies explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skillful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first does not seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки, Collins W |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Willcie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This Collins' work were classified at the time as "sensation novel", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. John Jago's Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.
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| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Fallen Leaves novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another 'fallen leaves', who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки, Collins W |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Armadale is a novel by Collins, first published in 1864-66. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки, Collins W |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Fallen Leaves novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another 'fallen leaves', who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
William Willcie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This Collins' work were classified at the time as "sensation novel", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. John Jago's Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Collins W |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |