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The Woman in White [MultiFormat]
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Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in White features the remarkable heroine Marian Halcombe and her sleuthing partner, drawing master Walter Hartright, pitted against the diabolical team of Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. A gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, Collins's psychological thriller has never been out of print since its publication in 1860. 1860
Words: 246983 - Reading Time: 705-987 min.
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The Moonstone [MultiFormat]
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The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse. 1868
Words: 196632 - Reading Time: 561-786 min.
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No Thoroughfare [MultiFormat]
by Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins
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Joint work with characters by Dickens and a plot by Collins. 1867
Words: 47655 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
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The Dead Secret [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter and the recovery of a hidden secret.
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Dead Alive [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Wilkie Collins
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Heart all right, said the doctor. Lungs all right. No organic disease that I can discover. Philip Lefrank, don't alarm yourself. You are not going to die yet. The disease you are suffering from is--overwork. The remedy in your case is--rest.
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The Woman in White [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Wilkie Collins
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 "There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road--there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven--stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments." Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this ... more info>>
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The Black Robe [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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Lewis Romayne is a recluse, forced from his life of academic research by the dying call of an aunt in Paris. Subsequently involved in a duel, he returns a broken man, until he meets Stella Eyrecourt and marriage becomes a possibility. But a face from the past begins a battle for Romayne's soul. 1881
Words: 107897 - Reading Time: 308-431 min.
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The Evil Genius [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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Collins' most financially successful novel, The Evil Genius opens with a jury determining the fate of a sea captain whose ship allegedly facilitated a diamond theft. The story develops into a powerful novel of Victorian private life, including deception, adultery and divorce. An "evil genius" is threatening to rip apart the fabric of the Linley home. Who is it and why? Is it the orphaned young governess for whom the father lusts; the brother-in-law who appears to help everyone, but succeeds ofte... more info>> 1886
Words: 110757 - Reading Time: 316-443 min.
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A Fair Penitent [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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This story first appeared in Charles Dickens' magazine, "Household Words," volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's finanacial accounts. 1857
Words: 4534 - Reading Time: 12-18 min.
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The Frozen Deep [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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A volume of two stories in which a young girl dreads the return of a spurned lover, and the interest of two bankers is aroused by a man carrying a large cash-box around town. 1857
Words: 28420 - Reading Time: 81-113 min.
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The Guilty River [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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Gerard Roylake returns from years of banishment to take up his inheritance surrounded by strangers. A meeting with Cristel Toller brings back childhood memories, but also introduces him to a sinister man known only as "The Lodger". Besotted with Cristel, he exerts a peculiar influence on everyone. 1886
Words: 45273 - Reading Time: 129-181 min.
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The Haunted Hotel [A Mystery of Modern Venice] [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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This is perhaps Collins' last lucid effort before ill health and opium drained his powers. A tale of ghostly terror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed Countess characterize and distinguish this powerful Collins novelette. 1879
Words: 62675 - Reading Time: 179-250 min.
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I Say No [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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When 18-year-old Emily meets Francine, a new schoolmate from the West Indies, she finds herself telling her the story of her father's death. The school-mistress approaches her, stating "I believe I knew him" and so begins Emily's desperate search to solve the mystery of her father's death. 1884
Words: 119760 - Reading Time: 342-479 min.
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The Law and the Lady [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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By the time The Law and the Lady appeared in 1873, The Woman in White and The Moonstone had already established Collins as the leading practitioner of 'sensation fiction'. The Law and the Lady builds on this tradition by introducing one of English literature's earliest women detectives, Valeria Woodville, who investigates the murder of her husband's first wife, in the attempt to prove him guiltless. Rich in plot and characters, including the extraordinary áman-machine' Miserrimus Dexter and his ... more info>> 1873
Words: 141070 - Reading Time: 403-564 min.
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Little Novels [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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A collection of stories by Wilkie Collins. 1887
Words: 148683 - Reading Time: 424-594 min.
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Miss or Mrs? [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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This story follows the fortunes of Natalie Graybrook who finds herself regarded by two men between whom the tension heightens as one finds his business collapsing. 1873
Words: 30960 - Reading Time: 88-123 min.
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Armadale [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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The third of Wilkie Collins's four great novels of the 1860s, coming after The Woman in White and No Name and immediately before The Moonstone, Armadale is quintessentially a novel of its decade. It deals with the emergence of the autonomous, sexually active woman from the dichotomies of Madonna and Magdalen; with the legal tangles of the unsatisfactory marriage laws; with the perception of the growing role of scientific intrusion into the privacy of the individual psyche. Above all, it explores... more info>> 1866
Words: 298345 - Reading Time: 852-1193 min.
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Basil [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to Margaret Sherwin, the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the consequent shocks and horrors of betrayal, insanity, and death, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the first half of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. But although Basil himself does not recognize them, the story forces other conflicts on the reader's attention--between man's sexual and romantic needs and be... more info>> 1852
Words: 116907 - Reading Time: 334-467 min.
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The Legacy of Cain [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child? 1888
Words: 119806 - Reading Time: 342-479 min.
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Man and Wife [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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"This time the fiction is founded upon facts," stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day. Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of ... more info>> 1870
Words: 229558 - Reading Time: 655-918 min.
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After Dark [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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First published in this form 1856, these stories are linked by the story of Leah, itself a substantial story and each has a prologue. Collins's preface is also included. Contains the following separate stories: "Leaves from Leah's Diary"; "The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed"; "The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter"; "The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose"; "The Angler's Story of The Lady of Glenwith Grange"; "The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage"; "The Professor's Story of The... more info>> 1856
Words: 137101 - Reading Time: 391-548 min.
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Antonina [MultiFormat]
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Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times--the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths. 1850
Words: 167251 - Reading Time: 477-669 min.
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Jezebel's Daughter [MultiFormat]
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Rumoured to have been responsible for her husband's downfall, Madame Fontaine becomes known as Jezebel, and her sweet-tempered daughter is known as Jezebel's daughter. 1880
Words: 101860 - Reading Time: 291-407 min.
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My Lady's Money [MultiFormat]
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A drawing-room story that involves a robbery, the Jockey Club and it's society, the betting-ring, and marriage plans. 1877
Words: 53269 - Reading Time: 152-213 min.
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The Queen of Hearts [MultiFormat]
by Wilkie Collins
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A collection of short stories published in 1859. 1859
Words: 145806 - Reading Time: 416-583 min.
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