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

The Woman in White (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice,

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - e-kniha

eBook:,Who is the 'solitary figure of a woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments,' whose appearance shattered forever the outward peace of life at Limmeridge House? Is she an apparition...a madwoman...perhaps a player in some bizarre scheme? From the moment 'the Woman' first appears to

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

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

The Woman in White (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle s guardianship until Laura s marriage to Sir Percival Glyde, who is a man of many secrets. 'Could he be connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Foscowhose

The Woman in White (Collins Wilkie)(Pevná vazba)

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Woman in White famously opens with Walter

The Woman in White (Collins Wilkie)(Pevná vazba)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books

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

The Law and the Lady (Collins W. Wilkie)(Paperback)

Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register; this slip is followed by a

Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback / softback)

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The Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

A sharp-witted detective investigates the mystery of a gem, plundered from India and now vanished in England, and discovers shifting motives, unreliable testimony and growing danger in this foundational classic of mystery fiction. The Moonstone justly occupies an exalted position as a

The Woman in White (Collins Willie)(Paperback)

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story,

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

The Woman in White: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Wilkie Collins

'She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steeled his heart against her.'In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir

The Moonstone (Collins Wilkie)(Paperback)

Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement. When Rachel Verinder inherits the Moonstone from her uncle on her eighteenth birthday, the wonderful jewel is intended to make her rich and happy. So why

Winter of Despair (Harrison Cora)(Paperback)

Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series. November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the

Antonia; or, The Fall of Rome - Wilkie Collins - e-kniha

eBook:,Enter Big Willy C. In this his first published novel, Collins tackles two conflicts in the Rome of 408 AD: Paganism vs. Christianity and the titular hero, the daughter of a Christian Roman zealot, Antonia vs. Goisvintha – a Goth survivor of a Roman massacre. And when mild-mannered Antonia

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

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

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

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

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