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Miss or Mrs.?
Miss or Mrs.? – Wilkie Collins ‚Miss or Mrs.?‘ is a story in outline, and maybe the only instance in which Mr. Wilkie Collins has wasted his material; an entire novel might be constructed in his architectural style from its Incidents. There are several specimens of Mr. Wilkie Collins’s neat, precise humor in this story, […]
Poor Mrs. Finch
Poor Mrs. Finch – Wilkie Collins Mr. Wilkie Collins brings to his work, along with other and valuable qualities, the special talent of the private detective and the criminal lawyer. Almost no modern novelist stands in any comparison with him for skill in constructing the engrenage, as a Frenchman would call it, of personal complication, […]
Armadale
Armadale – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins has given us in this novel one more instance of his strange capacity for weaving extra plots. Armadale, from beginning to end, is a lurid labyrinth of improbabilities. It produces upon the reader the effect of a literary nightmare. Miss Gwilt, Mrs. Oldershaw, and Doctor Le Doux of the […]
Blind Love
Blind Love – Wilkie Collins It is on the true story of Baron Carl Ludwig von Scheurer, in which so many insurance companies were interested, that Wilkie Collins based the plot of his novel ‚Blind Love,‘ a work which he did not live to complete by his own hand. In August 1889, when its publication […]
The Legacy of Cain
The Legacy of Cain – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins‘ last-but-one novel was originally published in 1889. The Reverend Abel Gracedieu raises two daughters. One of them was adopted seventeen years before the story starts because her mother was executed for murdering her husband. The main question of the plot is whether this adoption will not end […]
Little Novels
Little Novels – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins‘ ‚Little Novels‘ is a collection of ingenious stories, told with some of the marvellous skill that made the author of The Woman in White famous. Villany is frustrated by devious ways, and a mind must be much preoccupied indeed that cannot for a time lose itself in Mr. […]
The Guilty River
The Guilty River – Wilkie Collins Gerard Roylake, returning from the continent to England to receive his in heritance, finds that one of his tenants a miller in the old mill on the banks of that dark, gloomy, repellant river, the Loke, has a lodger and a fair daughter. The lodger is a strange man, […]
The Evil Genius
The Evil Genius – Wilkie Collins Whether society should recognize a couple who, after being divorced, become reconciled, agree to forget their past difficulties and re-marry, is the question Mr. Collins tries to solve. The „evil genius „who makes all the mischief is the mother-in-law, who feels it is her duty to open her daughter’s […]
I Say No
I Say No – Wilkie Collins The popularity of Wilkie Collins is as unquestionable as his mannerism, and when this story bears the title ‚I Say No‘, it is characteristic of him that the meaning of this title is not made clear until three fourths of the novel has been read. The plot is, as […]
Heart and Science
Heart and Science – Wilkie Collins Mr. Wilkie Collins has here presented us with a ’novel with a purpose‘, and yet he has sacrificed none of his freedom and adroit resource of treatment. He has evidently, as he claims in the preface, devoted far more time and care to the study of character than in […]