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The Black Robe
The Black Robe – Wilkie Collins ‚The Black Robe‘ combines some aim at psychological analysis with great inventiveness. Mr. Wilkie Collins never writes carelessly; and in this instance he has been especially careful. The great point of the piece is the peculiar mental haunting by a voice of one Romagne, who has killed a man […]
Jezebel’s Daughter
Jezebel’s Daughter – Wilkie Collins The novel revolves around two totally different ladies, both of which happen to be widows. In England, we have Mrs. Wagner, who wants to run the business of her deceased husband and hire more women; she has a philanthropic vein and takes Jack Straw from the Bedlam asylum right into […]
My Lady’s Money
My Lady’s Money – Wilkie Collins „In relation to the purely literary side of the question,“ as Mr. Wilkie Collins says, there can be no doubt that his studies of character in ‚My Lady’s Money‘ do seem to be drawn from nature. The story is constructed with his accustomed skill, the details fit together as […]
The Fallen Leaves
The Fallen Leaves – Wilkie Collins In ‚Fallen Leaves‘, Mr. Wilkie Collins has touched on some very difficult problems, and has done it with delicacy. Though the main interest of the story does not lie in the plot, but rather in the characters and in the novel situations he has found, yet there is a […]
The Haunted Hotel
The Haunted Hotel – Wilkie Collins ‚The Haunted Hotel‘ is a story which, like others of Mr. Wilkie Collins’s stories, fascinates the reader, and compels him to finish it at a sitting. It has, too, this merit, that as the story progresses one is forced to recall the facts of the earlier part, and see […]
The Two Destinies
The Two Destinies – Wilkie Collins The story of two people who begin to love each other as boy and girl. Some mysterious agency seems to be at work, all through the story, in their behalf; for though apparently separated as children forever, they are brought together again by a most singular chain of circumstances. […]
The Law and the Lady
The Law and the Lady – Wilkie Collins ‚The Law and the Lady‘ is one of the most ingenious and most repulsive of Wilkie Collins’s novels, and we doubt, if having begun, that anyone would leave it unfinished. The heroine marries a man and soon discovers that she is his second wife, and that he […]
The Dead Alive
The Dead Alive – Wilkie Collins A curious story of two brothers who are tried for a murder and found guilty under strongly convicting circumstances. After pleading innocence of the crime, they strangely make a confession to the effect that they murdered the man, who at the last moment turns up alive. The author, in […]
The New Magdalen
The New Magdalen – Wilkie Collins Though perhaps this story does not equal, from a literary point of view, some of Collins’s previous efforts-it being less sensational and less complicated in its plot-it is, nevertheless, one of the best he has ever written. It is an able and eloquent protest against the false state of […]
Man and Wife
Man and Wife – Wilkie Collins If the only test of fiction is that it shall secure interest, then Mr. Wilkie Collins has succeeded to the full with this novel. The construction is almost perfect, and the interest is so graduated, and the plot so skillfully developed, that no portion can be skipped without loss. […]