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  • The New Magdalen
    Wilkie Collins
    At first glance, a piece of sentimental Victorian melodrama with added social commentary and criticism of the Victorian class system. Not surprising, considering Wilkie Collins close relationship with Charles Dickens. The novel has some modern relevance, as it deals with identity theft. Strong female characters are a Wilkie Collins trait, and of the five main characters, three ...
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  • The New Magdalen
    Wilkie Collins
    At first glance, a piece of sentimental Victorian melodrama with added social commentary and criticism of the Victorian class system. Not surprising, considering Wilkie Collins close relationship with Charles Dickens. The novel has some modern relevance, as it deals with identity theft. Strong female characters are a Wilkie Collins trait, and of the five main characters, three ...
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    30,54 €

  • The Queen of Hearts
    Wilkie Collins
    Interesting collection of 10 short stories, plus an extra one, equally interesting, that makes the frame of the other ten. The best stories, in my opinion, are the frequently antologized 'The biter bit,' plus 'A plot in private life' and the frame story ('The Queen of Hearts'). (Manuel Alfonseca)BIOWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novel...
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  • After Dark
    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 Charles Dickens. The stories are linked by a narrative framework.At the beginning and end of the book are 'Leaves from Leah’s Diary': William Kerb...
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  • Antonina, or The Fall of Rome
    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 in France for two years, so...
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  • Antonina, or The Fall of Rome
    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 in France for two years, so...
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    31,64 €

  • The Queen of Hearts
    Wilkie Collins
    Interesting collection of 10 short stories, plus an extra one, equally interesting, that makes the frame of the other ten. The best stories, in my opinion, are the frequently antologized 'The biter bit,' plus 'A plot in private life' and the frame story ('The Queen of Hearts'). (Manuel Alfonseca)BIOWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novel...
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    30,44 €

  • The Two Destinies
    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 in France for two years, so...
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    17,45 €

  • The Two Destinies
    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 in France for two years, so...
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    29,39 €

  • Basil
    Wilkie Collins
    Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him mar...
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  • Basil
    Wilkie Collins
    Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him mar...
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    30,58 €

  • Blind Love
    Wilkie Collins
    Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant.Collins’s novel had already begun serialization in The Illustrated London News, even though the author had not yet completed it. (It ran from 6 July to 28 December of that year.) When it was published in book form on 1890,...
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  • Blind Love
    Wilkie Collins
    Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant.Collins’s novel had already begun serialization in The Illustrated London News, even though the author had not yet completed it. (It ran from 6 July to 28 December of that year.) When it was published in book form on 1890,...
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  • Heart and Science
    Wilkie Collins
    It examines the conflict between faith, emotional intelligence & science. I found it extremely compelling and had real problems putting it down at night. The other themes I figured were English and her nurse who is Italian. Mental health issues: madness as embodied in Mrs Galilee, the hero’s mother & his cousin & sweetheart, Carmina, the heroine of the novel. Intellectualism ...
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  • Heart and Science
    Wilkie Collins
    It examines the conflict between faith, emotional intelligence & science. I found it extremely compelling and had real problems putting it down at night. The other themes I figured were English and her nurse who is Italian. Mental health issues: madness as embodied in Mrs Galilee, the hero’s mother & his cousin & sweetheart, Carmina, the heroine of the novel. Intellectualism ...
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    30,45 €

  • Hide and Seek
    Wilkie Collins
    Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’ third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel’s characters. Suspense is created from the reader’s uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how. Hide and Seek was hailed by both contemporary and modern critics...
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  • Hide and Seek
    Wilkie Collins
    Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’ third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel’s characters. Suspense is created from the reader’s uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how. Hide and Seek was hailed by both contemporary and modern critics...
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    31,71 €

  • 'I Say No'
    Wilkie Collins
    Wilkie Collins is an amazing author and a favourite of mine, with a knack for spinning the happiest possible endings from his dark and integrating murder plots. This book will have you suspecting everything but the truth and smiling by the end. It is well written true to form and as usual for Mr Collins has some kind and loveable servants to round out the the sad stories. (Rebe...
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  • 'I Say No'
    Wilkie Collins
    Wilkie Collins is an amazing author and a favourite of mine, with a knack for spinning the happiest possible endings from his dark and integrating murder plots. This book will have you suspecting everything but the truth and smiling by the end. It is well written true to form and as usual for Mr Collins has some kind and loveable servants to round out the the sad stories. (Rebe...
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    31,63 €

  • Jezebel’s Daughter
    Wilkie Collins
    Fantastic sensationalism! It’s got the lot! Lunatics, poison, murder, Bedlam, a Deadhouse. A really well paced ride of a read.BIOWilliam 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 painte...
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    18,61 €

  • Jezebel’s Daughter
    Wilkie Collins
    Fantastic sensationalism! It’s got the lot! Lunatics, poison, murder, Bedlam, a Deadhouse. A really well paced ride of a read.BIOWilliam 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 painte...
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    30,53 €

  • Little Novels
    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 in France for two years, so...
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    21,06 €

  • Little Novels
    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 in France for two years, so...
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    31,68 €

  • Man and Wife
    Wilkie Collins
    Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins’s ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage la...
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    24,35 €

  • Man and Wife
    Wilkie Collins
    Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins’s ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage la...
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    36,29 €

  • Miss or Mrs.?
    Wilkie Collins
    Another crisp short novel from Wilkie Collins. As one who distrusts the institution of matrimony, he gives us another example of the somewhat strange Victorian marriage laws. The heroine of Miss or Mrs.?, Natalie, is fifteen years old. Her family wants her to wed Richard Turlington, a failing businessman who wants access to Natalie’s father’s fortune to save his hide. Natalie h...
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  • Miss or Mrs.?
    Wilkie Collins
    Another crisp short novel from Wilkie Collins. As one who distrusts the institution of matrimony, he gives us another example of the somewhat strange Victorian marriage laws. The heroine of Miss or Mrs.?, Natalie, is fifteen years old. Her family wants her to wed Richard Turlington, a failing businessman who wants access to Natalie’s father’s fortune to save his hide. Natalie h...
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    27,09 €

  • My Lady’s Money
    Wilkie Collins
    My Lady’s Money is a social comedy about theft. A bank note is stolen from Lady Lydiard, and the wrong person is suspected. In order to discover the real thief, Robert Moody, who is in love with Lady Lydiard’s adopted daughter Isabel, engages a sloppy investigator, Old Sharon. The novel blends detective fiction with social comedy. BIOWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 ...
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  • My Lady’s Money
    Wilkie Collins
    My Lady’s Money is a social comedy about theft. A bank note is stolen from Lady Lydiard, and the wrong person is suspected. In order to discover the real thief, Robert Moody, who is in love with Lady Lydiard’s adopted daughter Isabel, engages a sloppy investigator, Old Sharon. The novel blends detective fiction with social comedy. BIOWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 ...
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    28,29 €

  • No Name
    Wilkie Collins
    No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens’ magazine All the Year Round before book publication. The story is told in eight major parts, called Scen ... (wikipedia.org) ...
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    24,20 €


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