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The Moonstone
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins „I’m sick to death of novels with an earnest purpose. I’m sick to death of outbursts of eloquence, and large-minded philanthropy, and graphic descriptions, and unsparing anatomy of the human heart, and all that sort of thing. Good gracious me ! Isn’t it the original intention or purpose, or whatever […]
No Thoroughfare
No Thoroughfare – Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens The joint-effort of Mr. Dickens and Mr. Wilkie Collins, apart from its merits or demerits, must excite curiosity and interest. It is clear that in “ No Thoroughfare “ the latter gentleman has had the lion’s share of the labour, whatever of lion’s share may fall to him […]
My Miscellanies
My Miscellanies – Wilkie Collins The author of ‚The Woman in White‘ and of ‚No Name‘ has had reprinted and published a collection of articles contributed by him to Household Words, and perhaps to other periodicals. The two papers which will attract most attention are probably those entitled respectively, „To Think, or Be Thought For,“ […]
No Name
No Name – Wilkie Collins The special charm of ‚No Name‘ is the uncertainty in which the reader is kept. The most experienced of novel-readers is unable to predict whether Magdalen succeeds in her scheme, or marries Capt. Kirke, or retires from the scene to die, baffled and broken-hearted. Each crisis in the progress of […]
The Woman in White
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins This extraordinary work ranks among the foremost purely melodramatic or sensation novels of modern times. Mr. Collins has thrown a force and power into this story, of which the reader has only seen intimations in his former works. After opening the narrative with a cheerful sketch of Professor […]
The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts – Wilkie Collins Mr. Wilkie Collins can tell a story well, and he has an ingenious knack of stringing stories together. After Dark consisted of a series of stories, and admirable they were, and ‚The Queen of Hearts‘ is a work of the same description. The author lives in the region […]
The Haunted House
The Haunted House – Wilkie Collins (and others) The stories in this book, originally published as a double number of Dickens‘ ‚All Year Round‘-magazine, come from the likes of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter, George Sala and Hesba Stretton. Included are ‚The Mortals in the House‘, ‚The Ghost in the Clock Room‘, […]
A House to Let
A House to Let – Wilkie Collins (and others) A Christmas and New Year’s Story. Though totally unlike any of Dickens‘ Christmas stories of former years, this is by no means inferior to the best of them. It may not be so highly imaginative as the first of his productions of the kind, but it […]
Mr. Wray’s Cash Box
Mr. Wray’s Cash Box – Wilkie Collins A good bookshelf is not complete without this charming little tale. It is founded on what was related to the author as a fact, as to the first obtaining of the well-known cast of the face of Shakespeare, by a stonemason, who was repairing the church at Stratford-on […]
Basil
Basil – Wilkie Collins Although ‚Basil‘ is a story of today, although all its accidental environments are of the most ordinary character, although the scene is laid in a scarce-finished suburban square (say in Brompton or Camden Town), although some of the personages are nothing more romantic than London linen-drapers, although the whole action of the […]