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Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins' "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 terrible confe ...Show more
Blind Love by Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant
Category: Classics
Iris Henley is a bright young woman that falls in love with an unstable man whose criminal history begins to catch up with them. Despite their obstacles, Iris chooses to stand by and defend her husband. Iris Henley goes against her father’s wishes and marries Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish sec ...Show more
Haunted Hotel and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Edited and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?’ This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a cleve ...Show more
Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Norman Donaldson (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
At the center of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known only as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe--rebelling against his repressi ...Show more
Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!' How far is a mother prepared to go to secure her daughter's future? Madame Fontaine, widow of an eminent chemist, has both the determination and the cunning to bring young Minna's marriage plans to fruition, with dangerous consequences for ...Show more
Moonstone by COLLINS WILKIE
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Collins's story revolves around a diamond stolen from a ...Show more
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
Category: Fiction
You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since. The persons principally concerned in the Event are: -a blind girl; two (twin) brothers; a skilled surgeon; and a curious foreign woman. I am the curious foreign woman. And I take i ...Show more
The Dead Secret by Ira Bruce (EDT) Wilkie; Nadel Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Dead Secret - A Novel by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics
Wilkie Collins was the first great detective novelist. His dark and complex mysteries influenced the work of other writers, such as Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, with whom he developed a close personal friendship. Swinburne found his work worthy of serious criticism, and T. S. Eliot credits him ...Show more
The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics
When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later, against the wishes of his mother, he marries Alicia, a woman with a strange resemblance to the mysterious visi ...Show more
The Dream Woman - A Mystery in Four Narratives by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics
A tale of mystery by the finest master of the genre, Wilkie Collins. It is about a protagonist s dream in which a woman haunts. The mystery gets more interesting when dream becomes reality. Chilling!