Wilkie Collins
61) Wilkie Collins - 10 Short Stories of Suspense and Terror from a Master of the Genres (Fantasy and
66) The Guilty River
Heart and Science: a story of the present time / Wilkie Collins
"Wilkie Collins’s later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling—but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more true than of his 1883 novel Heart and Science, which Collins himself placed alongside his masterpiece
...68) "I Say No"
I Say No / Wilkie Collins
"This 1884 novel features a young orphan, Emily Brown, who is courted by two eligible bachelors: Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school, and a clergyman, Miles Mirabel. Both claim to love her, but only one is telling the truth . . . and the other may be implicated in the suspicious death of her father." (Goodreads)
69) Little Novels
Little Novels is a collection of short stories by Wilkie Collins. William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to a London painter, William Collins, and his wife, the family moved to Italy when Collins was twelve, living there and
...The Poetry Did It / Wilkie Collins
"This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1885. 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
...71) Poor Miss Finch
72) The Twin Sisters
73) Nine O' Clock
77) C'était écrit !
79) A Fair Penitent
80) The Fatal Cradle
The Fatal Cradle / Wilkie Collins
"Humorous tale of two babies born simultaneously on a crowded ship bound for Australia. One is the eighth child of a poor family, the Heavysides, the other the first-born of a well-to-do couple, the Smallchilds. Their identities become confused when they are placed in the same makeshift cradle and the captain, after trying several unsuccessful methods, finally allocates them by weight, giving the heavier
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