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Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The novella The Haunted Hotel is a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo converted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. No Thoroughfare is a stage play produced by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding, with...
| 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 |
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 |
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...
| 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. My Lady's Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are a lot of possible suspects she must sort through. One of them - an honest girl Isabella. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices tells the story of sightseeing trip to Cumberland of Charles Dickens and his friend, the rising star of literature, Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures...
| 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. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health, Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina.
| 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. 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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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 |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Hide and Seek is the story about the girl named Mary - they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael. All they did know about her identity was that she'd lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life itself: a bracelet made of brown...
| 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. 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 |
| 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 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Written in the early 1860s, No Name was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at...
| 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 |
The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plotskillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. The Yellow Mask - a complete mystery novel.
| 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 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. The Dream Woman tells a story of Francis Raven who had a dream about a woman killing him. Then he met a girl called Alicia Warlock who looked like the person in his thoughts.
| 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. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one - now a proprietor of a wine merchant's company - the executors are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean -...
| 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. John Jago's Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |