Wilkie Collins

• 1840
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins was an extremely popular author of the Victorian era. Aside from his thirty novels, Collins penned a great amount of short stories across a number of genres. First published in 1856, 'The Diary of Anne Rodway' is one of his best-rememb...

• 1848
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1881. 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 t...

• 1850
• / General Fiction
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A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story, the Emperor Honorius, and ...

• 1851
• / General Fiction
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The journey began aboard ship. In 1851 the railway stopped in Plymouth and so travellers had to be ferried across the River Tamar into Cornwall. The vogage is wonderfully related with such vivid descriptions and a helpful local local boatman coming t...

• 1851
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1851. 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 t...

• 1852
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of Basil includes a table of contents....

• 1852
• / General Fiction
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. . . . I have endeavored, in writing my little book, to keep the spirit of its title-page motto in view, and tell my "honest tale" as "plainly" as I could -- or, in other words, as plainly as if I were only relating it to an audience of friends a...

• 1852
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1852. 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 t...

• 1852
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1852. 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 t...

• 1852
• / General Fiction
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William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His b...

• 1852
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone. But Collins also wrote short stories, tales of terror and the supernatural, which many consider comparabl...

• 1852
• / Horror
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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

• 1853
• / General Fiction
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"This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1853. 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...

• 1854
• / Suspense
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of Hide and Seek includes a table of contents....

• 1854
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1854. 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 t...

• 1854
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone. But Collins also wrote short stories, tales of terror and the supernatural, which many consider comparabl...

• 1855
• / General Fiction
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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...

• 1855
• / General Fiction
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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...

• 1855
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone. But Collins also wrote short stories, tales of terror and the supernatural, which many consider comparabl...

• 1856
• / Fantasy
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of After Dark includes a table of contents....

• 1856
• / General Fiction
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"This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1856. 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...

• 1856
• / Suspense
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.THE DEAD SECRET made its first appeal to readers, in periodical portions, week by week. On its completion, it was reprinted in two volumes. The edition so produced having been exhausted, the story makes its ...

• 1856
• / Gothic
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--a world where the eerie and terrifying work their evil in the shadows of old, dark houses --a world where secrets and curses never die--even after they've been buried --a world where endangered young women live their fearful lives in a smothe...

• 1856
• / General Fiction
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Frank Softly fell in love with the daughter of a counterfeiter--the beautiful Alicia, Dr. Dulcifer's daughter--and before he could stop it he'd somehow gotten mixed up in the forgery himself....

• 1857
• / General Fiction
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An editor introduces the confession of a former star of the Paris stage who leaves her life of vice and sin to eventually become a Carmelite nun....

• 1857
• / Suspense
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is �" dancing....

• 1857
• / General Fiction
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

• 1857
• / Horror
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Many of the earliest ghost stories and tales of hauntings, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editio...

• 1857
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone. But Collins also wrote short stories, tales of terror and the supernatural, which many consider comparabl...

• 1858
• / General Fiction
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When the empty house across the way appears to be suddenly occupied, the elderly Sophonisba enlists her equally elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to get to the bottom of the mystery. But in so doing, Sophonisba will find her li...

• 1858
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1858. 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 t...

• 1858
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins (1824-89), associate of Charles Dickens and author of 15 novels, is perhaps best known for the great mystery novel The Moonstone. But Collins also wrote short stories, tales of terror and the supernatural, which many consider comparabl...

• 1859
• / General Fiction
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

• 1859
• / Horror
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Queen of Hearts includes a table of contents....

• 1860
• / Gothic
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Mass market paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1859), Penguin, NY. 648 pages. Includes a Notes section and knowledgeable introduction by Symons, a known critic of British detective stories. Collins was a friend of Dickens and wro...

• 1861
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1861. 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 t...

• 1862
• / Suspense
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of No Name includes a table of contents....

• 1863
• / Literary
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This collection represents the common themes of Wilkie Collins’s writings: light-hearted stories, serious social commentary, and historical narratives. They range in subject from groaning over boring fiction to accounts of battles. The 24 essays an...

• 1863
• / Horror
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"Hullo, there! Hostler! Hullo-o-o!" "My dear! why don't you look for the bell?" "I have looked--there is no bell." "And nobody in the yard. How very extraordinary! Call again, dear." "Hostler! Hullo, there! Hostler-r-r!" My second call echoes through...

• 1866
• / General Fiction
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When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husban...

• 1867
• / Mystery
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In the gripping drama No Thoroughfare, two of the Victorian era's most popular writers -- Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens -- team up to tell a tale of mistaken identity and miscommunication. The fates of two orphans with the same name are inex...

• 1868
• / Gothic
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Lovely Rachel Verinder had inherited The Moonstone - an evil treasure that brought terror and death to all who owned it and refused its return to the temple from which it was stolen. But on the night of her marriage it disappeared from her home. D...

• 1869
• / General Fiction
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

• 1870
• / General Fiction
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.ON a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay....

• 1872
• / General Fiction
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The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on land-the silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea. Not a breath came from the dead air. Not a ripple stirred on the motionless water....

• 1872
• / General Fiction
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since....

• 1873
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The New Magdalen includes a table of contents....

• 1874
• / Suspense
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Dead Alive includes a table of contents....

• 1874
• / General Fiction
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• 1875
• / Horror
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Many of the crime and detective stories of the Victorians, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editio...

• 1875
• / Suspense
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Wilkie Collins (8 January 182423 September 1889) will never be as well known as one of his friends, a fellow writer named Charles Dickens. But Collins was an established playwright and author in his own right. Collins and Dickens collaborated frequen...

• 1875
• / General Fiction
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MY brother, the clergyman, looked over my shoulder before I was aware of him, and discovered that the volume which completely absorbed my attention was a collection of famous Trials, published in a new edition and in a popular form. He laid his finge...

• 1876
• / General Fiction
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"THE Captain is still in the prime of life," the widow remarked. "He has given up his ship; he possesses a sufficient income, and he has nobody to live with him. I should like to know why he doesn't marry." "The Captain was excessively rude to Me," t...

• 1876
• / Romance
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Two Destinies includes a table of contents....

• 1877
• / General Fiction
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THE disasters that follow the hateful offense against Christianity, which men call war, were severely felt in England during the peace that ensued on the overthrow of Napoleon at Waterloo. With rare exceptions, distress prevailed among all classes of...

• 1877
• / Horror
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"This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1877. 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...

• 1878
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Detective Classics presents you The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice in a fantastic ebook edition. Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood to marry the Countess Narona.  The couple end a continental tour in Venic...

• 1878
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1878. 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 t...

• 1878
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1878. 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 t...

• 1879
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Fallen Leaves includes a table of contents....

• 1879
• / Gothic
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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 t...

• 1879
• / Mystery
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of My Lady’s Money includes a table of contents....

• 1880
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of Jezebel’s Daughter includes a table of contents....

• 1880
• / Horror
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BEFORE the doctor left me one evening, I asked him how much longer I was likely to live. He answered: "It's not easy to say; you may die before I can get back to you in the morning, or you may live to the end of the month." I was alive enough on the ...

• 1881
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Black Robe includes a table of contents....

• 1881
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1881. 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 t...

• 1881
• / General Fiction
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Undisputed master of “sensation fiction” and forefather of the modern crime story, Wilkie Collins was also a supreme chronicler of the dark underside of Victorian London. Chilling in the extreme, these three short stories of murder and suspense a...

• 1882
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1882. 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 t...

• 1882
• / General Fiction
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Is it morally permissible to conduct often-painful experiments on innocent animals? That contentious debate is still going on today, but it has its roots in the Victorian era, when the issue of 'vivisection' had only recently made its way into the pu...

• 1883
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1883. 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 t...

• 1883
• / General Fiction
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• 1884
• / General Fiction
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Outside the bedroom the night was black and still....

• 1884
• / General Fiction
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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 t...

• 1885
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Evil Genius includes a table of contents....

• 1886
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of The Guilty River includes a table of contents....

• 1886
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1886. 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 t...

• 1886
• / General Fiction
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"This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1885. 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...

• 1887
• / General Fiction
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Mrs. Zant has recently lost her beloved husband, and while walking in the Kensington Gardens, the spot where she and her deceased husband declared their love for each other, she feels his presence trying to warn her of some coming danger.

M...

• 1887
• / Horror
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THE Italians are born actors. At this conclusion I arrived, sitting in a Roman theater-now many years since. My friend and traveling companion, Rothsay, cordially agreed with me. Experience had given us some claim to form an opinion. We had visited, ...

• 1888
• / General Fiction
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.AT the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison d...

• 1889
• / General Fiction
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1859. 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 t...

• 1889
• / Literary
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of Little Novels includes a table of contents....

• 1890
• / General Fiction
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Wilkie Collins was a British author best known for his mystery novels.  Some of Collins’ classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.  This edition of Blind Love includes a table of contents....

• 1991
• / Suspense
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Written 150 years ago, never published, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collins's earliest novel now appears in print for the first time. Ioláni is a sensational romance--a tale of terror and suspense, bravery and betrayal, set agains...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...