No Name (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

No Name (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

'A masterpiece' The TimesAfter the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any

Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

No Name (Collins William Wilkie)(Paperback)

Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that

Woman in White (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

No Name (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

'Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance.' Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The

No Name - Wilkie Collins - e-kniha

eBook:,Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their births

Poor Miss Finch (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries

No Filter (Collins Orlagh)(Paperback / softback)

The Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more not less inexplicable. A celebrated Indian diamond is first stolen from India

Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she loves. Only Sergeant Cuff's famous detective skills offer any hope of peace and a future for them

Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with

Woman in White (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Hartright's Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and

Wilkie Collins (Ackroyd Peter)(Paperback / softback)

As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone - often called the first true detective novel - and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known

Bez jména - Wilkie Collins - e-kniha

eBook: William Wilkie Collins (8. ledna 1824 – 23. září 1889) byl anglický romanopisec, autor povídek a divadelních her. Přestože jeho tvorba zůstala ve stínu jeho slavnějšího přítele Charlese Dickense je Wilkie Collins velmi oblíbeným autorem, čemuž nasvědčuje i zvýšený

Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader) (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.- Carefully adapted text.- Accompanying audio and digital version with the print edition, accessed securely online.- The series includes popular classics, bestselling modern

Slečna nebo paní? - Wilkie Collins - e-kniha

eBook: Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), přítel Charlese Dickense, který o něm řekl, že toužil být stejně dobrým spisovatelem jako on. | Kniha ´Slečna nebo paní?´ má dvě základní zápletky. Patnáctileté dívce fyzicky dobře vyvinuté a docela hezké se dvoří mnohem starší muž,

The Frozen Deep (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of another ship belonging to the same expedition. When the ships get trapped in the ice and the men are

The Dead Secret (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

A mystery of unrelenting suspense and penetrating characterization, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of romance and Gothic drama. Reprinted here in the only critical edition available, is the text of

The Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate

Crow Garden (Littlewood Alison)(Paperback)

Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller: mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered

Armadale (Collins W. Wilkie)(Paperback)

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of

The Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

A thrilling tale of mystery and crime from a master storyteller. A pacy tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. Transported from the temples of India to atmospheric Victorian England, the scene is set for a tale which twists between death, drugs, mystery and, most of all,

Aurora Floyd (Braddon Mary Elizabeth)(Paperback)

With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling triumvirate of sensation novelists'. Aurora Floyd (1862-3), following hot on its heels, achieved almost equal popularity and notoriety. Like Lady Audley,

Armadale - Wilkie Collins - e-kniha

eBook: Po úspěšném románu ´Bez jména´ od Wilkieho Collinse (1824-1889), přítele Charlese Dickense nabízíme jeho další román ´Armadale´, který považoval T. S. Eliot za 'nejlepší z jeho románů'.  | Když starý Allan Armadale učiní na smrtelné posteli strašlivé