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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 […]
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. […]