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  • DIE FRAU IN WEIß
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    DIE FRAU IN WEIß
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Die reizende und vermögende Laura Fairlie wird mit dem adligen Mitgiftjäger Baronet Glyde verheiratet. Mithilfe eines zwielichtigen Grafen beraubt er seine Frau ihrer Identität und gelangt dadurch an ihr Vermögen. ...

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  • RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS, OR, NOTES IN CORNWALL TAKEN A-FOOT
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    RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS, OR, NOTES IN CORNWALL TAKEN A-FOOT
    WILKIE COLLINS
    An illustrated travel book narrating writer Wilkie Collins's 1850 walking tour of Cornwall with his artist friend, Henry Brandling. Published in 1851 and dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland. In those days 'even the railway stops short at Plymouth' and the travellers have to sail to their first destination at St Germains. William 'Wilkie' Collins (1824-1889) was an English n...

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  • THE DEAD ALIVE AND A FAIR PENITENT
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    THE DEAD ALIVE AND A FAIR PENITENT
    WILKIE COLLINS
    "The Dead Alive": A fitting companion to The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins produced one of the first, if not the first, court room drama in whose footsteps a myriad of subsequent authors have followed. Based on a true story, Collins adds a narrator and a confidant but few other embellishments illustrating how easily the cause of justice can be perverted. Along the way he casts a fe...

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  • THE BLACK ROBE
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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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    "I SAY NO"
    WILKIE COLLINS
    This 1884 novel features a young orphan, Emily Brown, who is courted by two eligible bachelors: Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school, and a clergyman, Miles Mirabel. Both claim to love her, but only one is telling the truth . . . and the other may be implicated in the suspicious death of her father. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
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    THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
    WILKIE COLLINS
    A remote castle in Wales inhabited by three older men is the last place on earth that a young, lively girl of 18 would want to spend time. And yet, when forced by circumstances to take up residence there for six weeks prior to coming of age, Jessie surprises them all by finding immense enjoyment in the experience and by capturing each of her adopted uncles' hearts. As the time ...

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  • THE GUILTY RIVER
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    THE GUILTY RIVER
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Enter Gerard Roylake, returning from Germany after his father dies, for his inheritance at Trimley Deen awaits. Whilst on an evening stroll he meets a childhood friend, Cristel Toller, and then their strange resident called The Lodger... Well of course Gerard likes Cristel, the Lodger is jealous, and soon a bizarre chain of events occur... (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE DEAD SECRET: A NOVEL
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    THE DEAD SECRET: A NOVEL
    WILKIE COLLINS
    The Secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamond Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Treverton’s motive was to provide her husband with a child, being apparently unable to bear children herself)....

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  • BASIL
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    BASIL
    WILKIE COLLINS
    In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE TWO DESTINIES
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    THE TWO DESTINIES
    WILKIE COLLINS
    An exploration of 'destined spirits' and supernatural visions, with a romantic twist. It is the perfect book for visions, deformed and veiled mysterious women, Scottish moors, fake marriages, murder suicides and strange coincidences involving kindred spirits. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE NEW MAGDALEN
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    THE NEW MAGDALEN
    WILKIE COLLINS
    This novel is one of Wilkie Collins later ones set in the 1870s during the Franco-Prussian war. His heroine, Mercy is deeply flawed. Believing that Grace died due to a German shell hitting her in the head, she assumes her identity. Therefore among her misdeeds she adds identity fraud. (Goodreads) ...

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  • HIDE AND SEEK
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    HIDE AND SEEK
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Collins' third novel was his first "mystery" novel, but like his next, The Dead Secret, it's not a conventional mystery as we know them today. Still, although there is no detective on the case, as Collins introduced in his most famous novel, The Moonstone, it's still very much a novel about detection, in this case the quest to discover the origins of the beautiful Mary, or Mado...

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  • POOR MISS FINCH
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    POOR MISS FINCH
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Wilkie Collins'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 of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Collins gives one of the best accounts in ...

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  • MY LADY'S MONEY
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    MY LADY'S MONEY
    WILKIE COLLINS
    This is a delightful tale of a woman of means who becomes the victim of the theft of a 500 pound note in her home. There are a number of possible suspects and she obtains help in pursuing the perpetrator. She retains a young girl as her companion and as she is of much lower rank and may be looked on as the possible thief, she is sent away to her Aunt, Miss Pink, to live until t...

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  • A ROGUE'S LIFE
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    A ROGUE'S LIFE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue’s Life follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytelling—and with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings today—this is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best. Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank Softly is introduced to a variety of profe...

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  • MAN AND WIFE
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    MAN AND WIFE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE EVIL GENIUS: A DOMESTIC STORY
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    THE EVIL GENIUS: A DOMESTIC STORY
    WILKIE COLLINS
    As a prelude to the main story, we first encounter the proceedings of a trial. Roderick Westerfield is being tried for theft and insurance fraud. He is the second son of an English Lord, and so, could inherit neither the title of his father nor his financial holdings. Roderick also embarrassed the family by marrying a woman whose vocation was a barmaid. His elder brother, thoug...

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  • THE LEGACY OF CAIN
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    THE LEGACY OF CAIN
    WILKIE COLLINS
    When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child? (Goodreads) ...

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  • ARMADALE
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    ARMADALE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the plot of this gripping melodrama: a tale of confused identities, inherited curses, rom...

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  • THE LAW AND THE LADY
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    THE LAW AND THE LADY
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him -- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. Sh...

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  • BLIND LOVE
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    BLIND LOVE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Blind Love is Wilkie Collin's final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Sir Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the "wild"...

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  • LITTLE NOVELS
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    LITTLE NOVELS
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Collins's 1889 collection of fourteen short stories includes "Miss Morris and the Stranger," about a young governess and a fateful meeting, "Mr. Medhurst and the Princess," about two star-crossed lovers, and a dozen other tales involving love, social classes, money, and even ghosts. (Goodreads) ...

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  • NO NAME
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    NO NAME
    WILKIE COLLINS
    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 birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home sin...

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  • THE MOONSTONE
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    THE MOONSTONE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    The Moonstone is a page-turner, it catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this rive...

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  • MY MISCELLANIES VOL 1 & 2
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    MY MISCELLANIES VOL 1 & 2
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Excerpt: "My object in writing most of these papers—especially those collected under the general heads of 'Sketches of Character' and 'Social Grievances'—was to present what I had observed and what I had thought, in the lightest and the least pretentious form; to address the public (if I could) with something vi of the ease of letter writing, and something of the familiarity of...

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  • ANTONINA: OR, THE FALL OF ROME
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    ANTONINA: OR, THE FALL OF ROME
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an early master of mystery and suspense, writing such classics as The Moonstone, The Woman in White, and Basil. Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome was his first published novel, a colorful tale of ancient Rome. Of this work, Collins wrote: "To the fictitious characters alone is committed the task of representing the spirit of the age. The Roman empero...

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  • THE HAUNTED HOTEL A MYSTERY OF MODERN VENICE
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    THE HAUNTED HOTEL A MYSTERY OF MODERN VENICE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are there malefactions...

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  • AFTER DARK
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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. (Wikipedia) ...

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  • NO NAME
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    NO NAME
    WILKIE COLLINS
    A tragic tale of family and misfortune from the author of The Woman in White When their beloved parents die in quick succession, Magdalen and Norah Vanstone find that their world has been torn asunder. Through a legal technicality, their father’s will renders them without a legitimate claim to their inheritance. All of their family’s money goes to their uncle, and the orphaned ...

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  • THE WOMAN IN WHITE
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    THE WOMAN IN WHITE
    WILKIE COLLINS
    The first and greatest sensation novel, a thrilling story of evil thwarted and love reclaimed The night before he leaves London for a temporary engagement in the North of England, drawing instructor Walter Hartright walks home on an empty, moonlit road. Suddenly a hand reaches out of the darkness and touches him on the shoulder. Terrified, he turns to find a woman, dressed all ...

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