Wilkie Collins
102) The woman in white
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2018.
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Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
103) Callejón sin salida
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Novela de suspenso de Charles Dickens y Wilkie Collins que plantea una serie de misterios, conformando una trama atrapante. En la sección Aquí y ahora, se apela a los saberes informales de los lectores sobre el género suspenso. En Enfoques para analizar, se trabaja el concepto de novela y, en particular, las características de la novela.
104) The moonstone
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Rachel Verinder finds herself inheriting a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday as a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond, associated with the Hindu moon god, is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and there are whispers of a curse placed upon it. Sure enough, the stone is stolen from Rachel's bedroom later that night. and a period of turmoil, unhappiness,...
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A very unusual collection of intriguing tales all of which involve the 'paranormal' (beyond the scope of normal investigation or explanation). From the famous Dickens story The Signalman to the terrifying Poe story of The Black Cat which seeks to gain revenge for the death of one of her kittens, from two werewolf stories, Sredni Vashtar and The Werewolf to Edgar Wallace's gripping The Man of the Night. Wilkie Collins and M.R. James completes this...
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A compilation of five masterful long short stories: "A Lodging for the Night" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Leaf in the Storm" by Ouida, "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins, "Michael Lorio's Cross" by Hesba Stretton, and "A Perilous Amour" by Stanley J. Weyman.
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Two tales from the golden age of supernatural fiction
The Haunted House at Latchford by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
Mrs. J. H. Riddell excelled at blending the realistic and supernatural elements in her stories. In Essex she found the right dreary setting for The Haunted House at Latchford, "where beyond the fated house and ruined garden lay the belt of pine trees and the lake of the dismal swamp, which had furnished Crow Hall with no less than two tragedies."
The...
108) The woman in white
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Artist Walter Hartright arrives at Limmeridge House to instruct wealthy half-sisters Marian and Laura Fairlie. Their peaceful lives are marred by a strange woman dressed in white, who brings disturbing warnings to the family. When Laura announces her engagement to the dashing Sir Percival Glyde, it seems the darkness haunting them is lifting. But new dangers lurk closer than ever, and the only hope for averting disaster lies with the secret held by...
110) The woman in white
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2005.
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English
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A sane woman is locked up in an asylum by a fraudulent English aristocrat who is afraid she may expose his 'secret.' Escaping while wearing a white gown, she runs into a youthful hero who becomes haunted by his brief meeting with this 'woman in white.'
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This sixth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time offers a variety of works by some of the most lauded writers in the field of suspense and literature. This engaging collection includes stories by 19th and early 20th century greats such as Wilkie Collins and Edith Wharton, as well as more modern fare from the pen of John Gardner, author of several James Bond novels. Literary fans will be riveted by Aldous Huxley's brilliant "The Gioconda Smile,"...
112) Basil
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A lonely young aristocrat (Jared Leto) in turn-of-the-century England struggling to gain the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father, falls in love with a woman his father will never approve of.
113) A House to Let
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In this short story by four great Victorian authors, a woman's fascination with an abandoned house reveals mystery and intrigue within. Written by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter, "A House to Let" tells the story of an elderly woman who moves to London for a change of scenery. Fascinated by signs of life emanating from a supposedly abandoned house, she entreats two rival helpers to investigate. On their...
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Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features sixteen classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Wilkie Collins.
Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself-amateur or professional- was fully formulated, and tales of mystery and intrigue...
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