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  • 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 Scenes. ...(wikipedia.org) ...
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  • No Thoroughfare
    Charles Dickens / Wilkie Collins
    No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. The two had previously collaborated on the play The Frozen Deep. This was the last stage production to be associated with Dickens, who died ...
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  • No Thoroughfare
    Charles Dickens / Wilkie Collins
    No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. The two had previously collaborated on the play The Frozen Deep. This was the last stage production to be associated with Dickens, who died ...
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  • The Woman in White
    Wilkie Collins
    The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins’s fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'.The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of late...
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  • The Woman in White
    Wilkie Collins
    The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins’s fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'.The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of late...
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  • Poor Miss Finch
    Wilkie Collins
    Poor Miss Finch (1872) by Wilkie Collins is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers. Twenty-one-year-old Lucilla Finch, the independently wealthy daughter of the rector of Dimchurch, Sussex, has been blind since infancy. Shortly after the narrator, Madame Pratolungo, arrives to serve as h...
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  • Poor Miss Finch
    Wilkie Collins
    Poor Miss Finch (1872) by Wilkie Collins is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers. Twenty-one-year-old Lucilla Finch, the independently wealthy daughter of the rector of Dimchurch, Sussex, has been blind since infancy. Shortly after the narrator, Madame Pratolungo, arrives to serve as h...
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  • The Black Robe
    Wilkie Collins
    The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne’s aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card game, where he has an argument with a cor...
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  • The Black Robe
    Wilkie Collins
    The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the misadventures of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a perceived anti-Catholic bias. As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne’s aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card game, where he has an argument with a cor...
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  • The Dead Alive
    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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  • The Dead Alive
    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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  • The Dead Secret
    Wilkie Collins
    The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins’s fourth published novel. Like its predecessor Hide and Seek, the 'secret' and the mystery are made clear to the reader, though not to the novel’s characters, at an early stage.The obsessed and arguably deranged Sarah prefigures the character of Hester Dethridge in Collins’s Man and Wife, and more distantly those of Lydia Gwilt in Armadale and...
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  • The Dead Secret
    Wilkie Collins
    The Dead Secret was Wilkie Collins’s fourth published novel. Like its predecessor Hide and Seek, the 'secret' and the mystery are made clear to the reader, though not to the novel’s characters, at an early stage.The obsessed and arguably deranged Sarah prefigures the character of Hester Dethridge in Collins’s Man and Wife, and more distantly those of Lydia Gwilt in Armadale and...
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  • The Evil Genius
    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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  • The Evil Genius
    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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  • The Fallen Leaves
    Wilkie Collins
    This is a fascinating Victorian novel that has a bit of everything--utopian socialism, prostitution, gilded-age crooks, premarital sex, and sympathetic feminism. Fascinating look at England in the 1870’s with themes that few novels of the time dared to explore. I have never been a fan of Collin’s Moonstone, but this book changed my opinion of him as a writer. I was riveted. (Ji...
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  • The Fallen Leaves
    Wilkie Collins
    This is a fascinating Victorian novel that has a bit of everything--utopian socialism, prostitution, gilded-age crooks, premarital sex, and sympathetic feminism. Fascinating look at England in the 1870’s with themes that few novels of the time dared to explore. I have never been a fan of Collin’s Moonstone, but this book changed my opinion of him as a writer. I was riveted. (Ji...
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  • The Frozen Deep
    Wilkie Collins
    The Frozen Deep is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens. Dickens’s hand was so prominent-beside acting in the play for several performances, he added a preface, altered lines, and attended to most of the props and sets-that the principal edition of the play is entitled 'Under the Ma...
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  • The Frozen Deep
    Wilkie Collins
    The Frozen Deep is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens. Dickens’s hand was so prominent-beside acting in the play for several performances, he added a preface, altered lines, and attended to most of the props and sets-that the principal edition of the play is entitled 'Under the Ma...
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  • The Guilty River
    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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  • The Guilty River
    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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  • The Haunted Hotel
    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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  • The Haunted Hotel
    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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  • The Law and the Lady
    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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  • The Law and the Lady
    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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  • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
    Charles Dickens / Wilkie Collins
    ...The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices was written as a collaboration between Charles Dickens and his great friend Wilkie Collins, to describe a walking tour the two had made together. During the September of 1857 they meandered through parts of the Lake District (named 'Cumberland' at the time, and now 'Cumbria'). What resulted is extremely whimsical, occasionally absurd, an...
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  • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
    Charles Dickens / Wilkie Collins
    ...The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices was written as a collaboration between Charles Dickens and his great friend Wilkie Collins, to describe a walking tour the two had made together. During the September of 1857 they meandered through parts of the Lake District (named 'Cumberland' at the time, and now 'Cumbria'). What resulted is extremely whimsical, occasionally absurd, an...
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  • The Legacy of Cain
    Wilkie Collins
    Novel dedicated to Mrs Henry Powell Bartley (Carrie Graves) acknowledging her skill and patience in copying manuscripts for the printer. Henry Bartley was Collin’s solicitor and, ironically, embezzled from the estate - the fate suffered by Miss Jillgall in the story. Published in 1888, it was the final novel completed by Collins and the last to be syndicated by Tillotson. The L...
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  • The Legacy of Cain
    Wilkie Collins
    Novel dedicated to Mrs Henry Powell Bartley (Carrie Graves) acknowledging her skill and patience in copying manuscripts for the printer. Henry Bartley was Collin’s solicitor and, ironically, embezzled from the estate - the fate suffered by Miss Jillgall in the story. Published in 1888, it was the final novel completed by Collins and the last to be syndicated by Tillotson. The L...
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  • The Moonstone
    Wilkie Collins
    The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early modern example of the detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The story was serialised in Charles Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round. Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a la...
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