Wilkie Collins
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1884. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law...
84) C'était écrit !
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Français
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Extrait : "En 1881, par une matinée brumeuse et peu après le lever du soleil, Denis Howmore fut réveillé en sursaut par ces mots prononcés à voix haute à travers la porte : «Le patron veut vous parler sur-le-champ.» L'individu chargé de ce message connaissait à coup sûr les lieux, car, arrivé en haut de l'escalier, il s'était arrêté droit devant la chambre à coucher de Denis Howmore, premier clerc de sir Giles Montjoie, banquier à...
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온이퍼브
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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A classic masterpiece of mystery novels!!
The first mystery novel in English literature.
It is a letter-type novel and is the first mystery novel in the history of English literature.
Instead of writing about murder or dramatic tension, which is a pattern of Sherlock Holmes or later mystery novels, it is written as an 18th-century epistolary novel, and each chapter tells the story of a different person, and the little clues are shown...
The first mystery novel in English literature.
It is a letter-type novel and is the first mystery novel in the history of English literature.
Instead of writing about murder or dramatic tension, which is a pattern of Sherlock Holmes or later mystery novels, it is written as an 18th-century epistolary novel, and each chapter tells the story of a different person, and the little clues are shown...
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English
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"The Frozen Deep": The play's genesis lay in the conflict between Dickens and John Rae's report on the fate of the Franklin expedition. In May 1845, the "Franklin expedition" left England in search of the Northwest Passage. It was last seen in July 1845, after which the members of the expedition were lost without trace. In October 1854, John Rae (using reports from "Eskimo" (Inuit) eyewitnesses, who informed that they had seen 40 "white men" and later...
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1855. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law...
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"The Woman in White" is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. "The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language....
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A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these well-loved men of letters....
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English
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The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives.
The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides...
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English
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. From 1859's Christmas edition of All Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, a collection set in an abandoned...
95) A House to Let
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English
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Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by a nearby "house to let," she charges her two warring attendants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret...
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Español
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En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Wilkie Collins, Juan Miguel Salvador, Joaquín Rodríguez, Manuel Gil, Jaume Balmes Sierra, Jesús Ortiz, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Eric Gill, Jason Forrest, CERLALC, Alejandro Dujovne, Simón Ergas, Hernán López Winne, Juan Villoro y Luis Herrero.
98) The Dream Woman
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English
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A man's recurring dream of his demise becomes a living nightmare.
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English
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A collection of witty, warm, mysterious short stories from some of the best classic authors
This fine collection of intelligent, unabridged short stories about intriguing, interesting and sometimes inspirational men is an audio treat for young and old, male or female. A carefully compiled anthology featuring timeless tales from classic authors including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anton Chekhov, read by a cast of acclaimed and respected...
100) Murder Most Foul
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English
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A collection of classic crime short fiction - story listing: Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham read by Derek Jacobi; Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins read by Patrick Malahide; An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr read by Brian Cox and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read by Edward Hardwicke.