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William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. He is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. However, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Woman...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then tails on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Сюжет социально-критического романа Уилки Коллинза "Муж и жена" основан на правовом парадоксе, который приводит к непредсказуемым поворотам человеческих судеб. Спустя три месяца после освобождения из тюрьмы мистер Ванборо женится, но несовершенное и противоречивое законодательство Великобритании становится верным помощником и соучастником его вероломных преступлений. Дочь мистера Ванборо решает начать свой собственный путь к семейному счастью. Удастся ли изменить бесправное положение английской...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins' Jezebel's Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around Mrs. Fontaine, a sinister widow who uses her dead husband's poisons and antidotes to control the futures of those around her. Filled with forensic details found in the best detective fiction, Jezebel's Daughter is remarkable in the way it handles the treatment of mental illness at the turn of the...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
William Wilkie Collins 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. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Dead Secret was Collins's 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, Rosamond's determined detective work uncovers a shocking truth.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 endure...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 well-loved men of letters. Through their fictional counterparts, the men relentlessly satirize Dickens' maniacal energy and Collins' idleness. The result is an exuberant diary of a journey and...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
William Wilkie Collins 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). Collins's works were classified at the time as "sensation novels", a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Wilkie Collins 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. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Magdalen Vanstone and Norah - her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |