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After Dark
After Dark – Wilkie Collins The setting for the six stories in this book is an episode in the life of a travelling portrait-painter, which we are made to learn through the charmingly simple narrative of his wife’s diary. Disabled for a time by weakness of the eyes from working at his profession, his wife […]
The Ostler
The Ostler – Wilkie Collins ‚The Ostler“ was originally published in 1855 as a short story, which later became the foundation for the much longer story ‚The Dream Woman.‘ It is one of Wilkie Collins‘ first supernatural stories, revolving around the forty-year-old Isaac Scatchard, who has a very strange dream of a young woman – or […]
Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek – Wilkie Collins One of the principal characters in Mr. Collins’s „Hide and Seek“ is an artist; but the writer has not sketched him as labouring in his vocation amid alternations of despair and hope. „The painter in this story,“ he says, „only assumes to be a homely study from nature, done […]
History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte (1740 – 1903)
History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte (1740 – 1903) – Daniel Augustus Tompkins This volume is one of the best county histories which have appeared in the South. It does not confine itself to genealogical and patriotic matters; but it very properly goes into the field of industrial and social history. This […]
History of Wake County, North Carolina
History of Wake County, North Carolina – Hope Summerell Chamberlain Wake County, N. C., was one of the latest of the pre-Revolutionary counties to be set off from the rest, and its boundaries were not in any sense natural boundaries, dependent upon natural barriers or the course of streams, but were run and divided for […]
The Frozen Deep
The Frozen Deep – Wilkie Collins The main actor in this play, that was co-written with Mr. Charles Dickens, is Richard Wardour, a man of violent passions, who has been supplanted in the affections of the woman to whom he was ardently attached. He discovers his successful rival in a comrade in an arctic expedition. […]
A Rogue’s Life
A Rogue’s Life – Wilkie Collins ‚A Rogue’s Life‘ was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of it, inasmuch as a short tale like this is more interesting than […]
The Dead Secret
The Dead Secret – Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins possesses the art of writing plays and stories so as to awaken and sustain the interest of the reader. He can create and work out a plot. It is true that the subject-matter of the plot is generally rather trivial, the characters commonplace, the whole tone and […]