(P/B) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire. Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman her...
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Ο ΕΝΟΧΟΣ ΠΟΤΑΜΟΣ
Ο ΤΖΕΡΑΡΝΤ ΡΟΫΛΕΗΚ, ΓΟΝΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΡΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ της Αγγλίας επιστρέφει, μετά από μακροχρόνια παραμονή στο εξωτερικό, στην οικογενειακή εστία, για να αναλάβει τη διαχείριση της πατρικής περιουσίας, μετά τον θάνατο του σκληρού πατέρα του. Επισκεπτόμενος τις εκτάσεις που πλέον του ανήκουν, πραγματικά τεράστιες, μιας και μία σχεδόν ολόκληρη κομητεία αποτελεί την ιδιοκτησία του, συναντά την Κρίστελ, μία νεαρή, γνωστή από τα παιδικά του χρόνια, γυναίκα πια, την κόρη του μυλωνά της περιοχής, από την οποίαν γοητεύεται και στο τέλος την ερωτεύ...
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(P/B) THE LAW AND THE LADY
Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority, to take the law into into a labyrinthine maze of false clues and deceptive identities, in which the exploration of the tangled workings of the mind becomes linked to an investigation into the masquerades o...
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(P/B) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his "charming" friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horr...
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(P/B) ARMADALE
Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify...
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(P/B) NO NAME
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. While the submissive Norah follows a path of duty and hardship as a governess, her high-spirited a...
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(P/B) THE MOONSTONE
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Guff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved. (From the publisher) "The...
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(P/B) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir Percival Glyde. But all is not as it seems with Sir Percival, as becomes clear when he arrives with his eccentric friend Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are further deepened by the ghostly appearances of a woman in white, apparently harbouring a secret that concerns Sir Percival's past. A tale of love, madness, deceit and redemption, boasting sublime Gothic settings and ...
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(P/B) THE DEAD SECRET
"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me! Terror when her pitying eyes look at me; terror when her kind voice speaks to me; terror when her tender hand touches mind!" Porthgenna Tower on the remote western Cornish coast. Moments before her death, Mrs Treverton dictates a secret to her maid, never to be passed to her husband as she had instructed. Fifteen years later, when Mrs Treverton's daughter, Rosamond, returns to Porthgenna with her blind hu...
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(H/B) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Wilkie Collins's classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the "woman in white." The novel's continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy, and realism; and in part from the power of its story. The catalyst for the mystery is Walter Hartright's encounter on a moonlit road with a mysterious woman dressed head to toe in white. She is in a state of confusion and distress, and when Hartright helps her...
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Ο ΖΩΝΤΑΝΟΣ ΝΕΚΡΟΣ
Ο "Ζωντανός νεκρός" είναι μια νουβέλα του Ουίλκι Κόλλινς, της οποίας η κεντρική ιδέα ανάγεται σε μια αληθινή υπόθεση που απασχόλησε τη Δικαιοσύνη στην Αμερική το 1819 - πρόκειται για την πρώτη αποδεδειγμένη δικαστική πλάνη στην ιστορία των ΗΠΑ. Η πραγματική αυτή ιστορία προσφέρει τον καμβά πάνω στον οποίο ο Ουίλκι Κόλλινς συνθέτει τη μυθοπλασία του και αναπτύσσει την κριτική του για τις συστημικές και εγγενείς αδυναμίες της αμερικανικής Δικαιοσύνης, που συχνά καταδικάζει αθώους βασισμένη σε ψευδείς μαρτυρίες, παραβλέψεις αποδεικτικών στοιχ...
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(P/B) THE MOONSTONE
The legendary Moonstone diamond is given to spirited Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, the gift of an uncle who came by it dishonestly. Originally plundered from a sacred statue in an Indian temple, the diamond is said to bring misfortune to those who prevent its return to its spiritual guardians. When the diamond vanishes overnight, Inspector Cuff of Scotland Yard is brought in to investigate. Suspicion falls on a band of Indian jugglers, but also on Franklin Blake, the man Rachel loves. A tale of betrayal, greed and the redempt...
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(P/B) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a stranger dressed from head to toe in white. She asks the way to London and no sooner has Walter directed her than he is overtaken by a carriage in pursuit of the mysterious woman, who has evidently escaped from an asylum. From this single incident, Walter unwinds a thrilling story of abduction, madness, false identity and shameful family secrets. The Woman in White (1860) is both a Victorian 'sensation' novel and a detective story. It established Collins as a popular author ...
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(H/B) THE WOMAN IN WHITE
The inspiration behind BBC1's sensational psychological thriller mini series. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins features an afterword by writer, editor and playwright David Stuart Davies. On a moonlit London night, art teacher Walter Hartwright meets a young woman - beautiful, terrif...
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(H/B) THE MOONSTONE
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. One of the great Victorian novels, The Moonstone has engrossed, entertained and enraptured readers since its first publication in 1868. This edition features an introduction by the renowned historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders. Lady Verinder's uncle gives her the Moonstone - a magnificent diamond as large as an egg - for her ei...
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Ο ΖΩΝΤΑΝΟΣ ΝΕΚΡΟΣ 'Η ΤΟ ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΤΖΟΝ ΙΑΓΟ
Όταν ο επιστάτης Τζον Ιάγο εξαφανιστεί μυστηριωδώς από τη φάρμα στο Μόργουικ και στην ασβεστοκάμινο εντοπιστεί ένας σωρός από καμμένα κόκαλα, οι Αρχές θα αναζητήσουν τον δολοφόνο του στις σκοτεινές σχέσεις και τα κρυφά πάθη της οικογένειας Μήντοουκροφτ. Ο ζωντανός νεκρός είναι μια ιστορία εκδίκησης, ψευδομαρτυριών, προδοσίας και αποδεικτικών στοιχείων που παραβλέπονται. Βασισμένη στα αληθινά γεγονότα της υπόθεσης των αδερφών Τζέσι και Στίβεν Μπερν, που καταδικάστηκαν για τη δολοφονία του Ράσελ Κόλβιν στις αρχές του 19ου αιώνα στις Η.Π.Α., ...
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(P/B) POOR MISS FINCH
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional de...
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(P/B) THE MOONSTONE
When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending. Described by T.S. Eliot as "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels", Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone is an important precursor of the mo...
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(P/B) ARMADALE
An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins' "Armadale" was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. 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 husband-poisoner. Her malicious intrigues fuel the ...
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(P/B) HIDE AND SEEK
At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, who is in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mysterious stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. Wilkie Collins's third novel, dedicated to his life-long friend Dickens, is a story in which excitement is combined with char...
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