The Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins
Title | The Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | e-artnow |
Pages | 3364 |
Release | 2017-12-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8027235936 |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents: After The Dark The Ostler Mr. Wray's Cash Box The Queen of Hearts A House To Let The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room") My Miscellanies No Thoroughfare Miss or Mrs? "Blow up with the Brig!" The Hidden Cash The Perils of Certain English Prisoners The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices The Last Stage Coachman The Fatal Cradle The Frozen Deep and Other Stories The Captain's Last Love The Dead Hand The Devil's Spectacles The First Officer's Confession Farmer Fairweather Fatal Fortune Fie! Fie! Or The Fair Physician Love's Random Shot The Midnight Mass Nine O'Clock A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino Potts The Haunted Hotel My Lady's Money Who Killed Zebedee Little Novels The Poetry Did It A Sad Death and A Brave Life The Twin Sisters Volpurno - Or The Student John Steadiman's Account (The Wreck of The Golden Mary) A Message from The Sea The Seafaring Man The Dead Alive
No Name
Title | No Name PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 1865 |
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The New Magdalen
Title | The New Magdalen PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1873 |
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Short Stories of Wilkie Collins
Title | Short Stories of Wilkie Collins PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258407575 |
Heart and Science
Title | Heart and Science PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1883 |
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The Haunted Hotel and Other Strange Tales
Title | The Haunted Hotel and Other Strange Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781840225334 |
A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death.
Wilkie Collins, Best Novels
Title | Wilkie Collins, Best Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2017-10-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781979064590 |
William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in London. He received his early education at home from his mother. He then attended an academy and a private boarding school. He also traveled with his family to Italy and France, and learned the French and Italian languages. He served as a clerk in the firm of the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. His first novel Iolani, or Tahiti as It Was; a Romance, was rejected by publishers in 1845. His next novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens, and the two became close friends. A number of Collins's works were first published in Dickens's journals In this book: The Moonstone The woman in white After dark