Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces....

Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century. He prospered sufficiently well, as a literary man, to be made secretary to the French Academy, and to be allowed to...

Illustrated with beautiful chapter headings that match the book cover!Delve into the seamy underside of eighteenth-century Paris in this gripping short story from beloved British author Wilkie Collins. The fair penitent of the title is a renowned stage actress who decides to give up...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1515077454ISBN-13: 9781515077459Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1852. 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...

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A rich widow...A disappearance....and Mr. Dark, a detective lawyer's clerk.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1542852021ISBN-13: 9781542852029Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2017Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3375125801ISBN-13: 9783375125806Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/2022Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.68d

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 337512581XISBN-13: 9783375125813Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/2022Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

A Plot In Private Life And Other Tales is a collection of short stories written by the renowned British author, Wilkie Collins. The book was first published in 1859 and features six different stories, each with its unique plot and characters.The title story, A...

A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, "A Rogue s Life" follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytellingand with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings todaythis is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best....

Scion of a well-connected but impoverished family, Frank Softly may be the most audacious, outrageous, engaging, and thoroughly lovestruck young man in Regency London. By the age of 25, he's been in and out of doctoring, caricaturing, forging Old Masters, and counterfeiting half-crowns. Now...

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Collins's classic work.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1612428401ISBN-13: 9781612428406Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2013Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42dLarge Print

A Rogue's Life, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

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...

Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3368402889ISBN-13: 9783368402884Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2022Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.46d

Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3368402897ISBN-13: 9783368402891Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2022Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Omnibus of Adventure Volume One, by Wilkie Collins. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141914586X.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1162837993ISBN-13: 9781162837994Publisher: Kessinger PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2010Pages: 22Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.02w x 0.05d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces....

I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1514624141ISBN-13: 9781514624142Publisher: Createspace Independent...

After Dark is Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. The book is a series of tales supposed to be told to poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to...

After Dark by Wilkie Collins. After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by...

After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The stories are...

After Dark, and Other Stories is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...

After Dark is a collection of six short stories by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1856. It was the author's first collection of short stories. Five of the stories were previously published in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens.... William Wilkie Collins...

Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3368430084ISBN-13: 9783368430085Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2022Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.25d

The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invading forces of those northern nations generally comprised under the appellation...

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...

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.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1522795219ISBN-13: 9781522795216Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2015Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 11.02h x...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3375008120ISBN-13: 9783375008123Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2022Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.73d

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 3375008139ISBN-13: 9783375008130Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2022Pages: 326Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Antonina: The Fall of Rome By Wilkie CollinsAuthor: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1986935531ISBN-13: 9781986935531Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2018Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.39d

The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invading forces of those northern nations generally comprised under the appellation...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1502570394ISBN-13: 9781502570390Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular; consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad. The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town, and the diligence was expected every minute. Before the door of the principal inn,...

The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, identity, murder and detection. In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession...

Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood--he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim. Before dying, Allan Armadale...

Armadale written in 1866 by British writer Wilkie Collins, is a literature & fiction classic novel in the mystery genre. Armadale centers around two distant cousins who are both named Allan Armadale. The father of one cousin murders the father of the other cousin...

Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood--he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim. Before dying, Allan Armadale...

An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a...

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: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot...

Armadale (1866) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi epistolary novel. Parts of the novel consists of letters between the various characters, other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them. The novel has a very convoluted plot about two distant cousins both...

Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864-66.Armadale is the third of the four great novels produced by Collins during the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859-60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). In the German spa...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Armadale is a mystery novel. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed...