Wilkie Collins: 563 books

En 1881, la jeune Emily Brown et sa meilleure amie Cecilia Wyvil sont pensionnaires dans une école pour jeunes filles. Peu avant les vacances estivales, Emily, apprend qu'une jeune professeur est renvoyée. Avant de partir, cette jeune femme confie à Emily, qui est orpheline, qu'elle a connu son...

Il y a de cela vingt ou trente ans. La scène se passe dans un port de mer, en Angleterre. Il fait nuit, et l’on est au bal. Le maire de la ville et le conseil municipal donnent un grand bal pour célébrer le départ de deux navires, le Wanderer et le Sea-Mew, qui vont vers le pôle arctique...

First published in 1859 and considered one of the first detective mystery novels ever written. One night Walter Hartright meets a strange woman dressed in white. The chance meeting has drastic consequences for them both.

A collection of ten short stories in which three brothers attempt to delay the departure of the beautiful Jessie Yelverton, to enable the return of her secret admirer from the Crimean War to propose to her.

A collection of six short stories first published in 1856, and includes: The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed, The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter, The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, The Angler's Story of The Lady of Glenwith Grange, The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, and The Professor's Story of The Yellow Mask.

A extensive saga about the various branches of the Armadale family, and the consequences for each following the murder of one by the other. 

En cette nuit d'août 1829, sur la côte déchiquetée des Cornouailles, la résidence d'été des Treverton n'est plus que silence et ténèbres. Le manoir tout entier est suspendu aux battements du coeur de la maîtresse de maison, qui rend bientôt son dernier souffle, laissant derrière elle un...

A classic detective story first published in 1875. Valeria marries her sweatheart, but soon discovers some unsettling truths about his past, which lead to murder. Was he innocent of the crime? She tries to uncover the truth.

Wilkie Collins' Rambles Beyond, Railways (1851) portrays the author’s travels on foot with his friend Henry Brandling. They cover 234 miles from the south coast to the Lizard and Penzance and from northern Cornwall to Tintagel and Launceston.

A Fair Penitent and Other Stories is collection of stories by Wilkie Collins. The title tale is a love story about a handsome actress, Mademoiselle Gautie, and Francois, another actor. She falls in love with him instantly, but as soon as she tests his sincerity, he cools towards her. This collection also includes The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed and Mr. Lismore and Widow.

Wilkie Collins's Mr. Wray's Cash Box: The Mask and The Mystery was published in 1851 as a Christmas book. Mr. Reuben arrives in Tidbury fleeing the police and faces additional problems when two criminals snatch away his cash box. Stranded and penniless, he is aided by his grand daughter.

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It 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'. As...

Published in 1850, Antonina, or The Fall of Rome was Wilkie Collins's first novel. Using accurate historical details about the Roman emperor Honorius and the Gothic king Alaric, he presents the fictitious character of Antonina and narrates her escapades during the siege of Rome. As she flees the city to preserve her honor, she does not realize the perils she will face.

Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep and Other Stories (1874) is a collection of stories. The title tale is a play, written under the guidance of Dickens, about Clara and her two suitors whose ships become trapped in the Arctic ice. The Dead Alive is a story which is based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case. The Dream Woman is a supernatural story about a protagonist haunted by a dream.