Wilkie Collins: 563 books

a Pierre de Lune est un diamant maudit, qui nuit à tous ses propriétaires successifs depuis son vol lors de la mise à sac d'un temple indien par l'armée anglaise. Offert à une jeune femme le jour de ses 18 ans, il disparaît au cours de la nuit suivante. Le...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The history of little more than the events of one year, out of the twenty-four years of my life.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being alone - and, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to be occupied in catching insects.

Extrait : Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira. Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être éclairci par les engins compliqués de la loi, et...

Extrait : Au fond d'une cour de la Cité de Londres, dans une petite rue escarpée, tortueuse, et glissante, qui réunissait Tower Street à la rive de la Tamise, se trouvait la maison de commerce de Wilding et Co., marchands de vins. L'extrémité de la rue par laquelle on aboutissait à la rivière...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLS THE STORY OF THE DINNER PARTY.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy - the year of the war between France and Germany.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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 during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. MR. DAVID GLENNEY CONSULTS HIS MEMORY AND OPENS THE STORY

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 Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary...

Excerpt AMONG THOSE who attended the first of the King’s levées, during the London season of 18 — was an unmarried gentleman of large fortune, named Streatfield. While his carriage was proceeding slowly down St. James’s Street, he naturally sought such amusement and occupation...

The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son...