Wilkie Collins: 563 books

Poisoned Meal is a true story about Marie-Francoise who is wrongly charged with murder.

A rich widow...A disappearance....and Mr. Dark, a detective lawyer’s clerk.

It was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people,...

Hals über Kopf stürzt Basil sich in eine überhastete Ehe mit der blutjungen und bildhübschen Margaret Sherwin, der Tochter eines einfachen Händlers, die er heimlich heiratet, denn dass sein Vater in diese Mesalliance niemals einwilligen würde, daran kann es keinerlei Zweifel geben. Blickt die...

Auf ihrem Sterbebett zwingt Mrs. Treverton ihre Zofe Sarah Leeson, das Geheimnis niederzuschreiben, das die beiden Frauen teilen, und droht Sarah an, sie aus der Welt der Toten heimzusuchen, sollte sie den Brief nicht an Mr. Treverton übergeben. Doch Mr. Treverton wird den Brief nie erhalten. Und...

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 si ces instruments réguliers pouvaient être mis...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: My Miscellanies is the 1893 collection of short stories and essays by the famous English novelist and playwright. This contains the complete set of both volumes.

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens upbringing was a mixture of happy times and sad: when he recalled his father being sent to debtors prison in his memoirs,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: My Miscellanies is the 1893 collection of short stories and essays by the famous English novelist and playwright. This contains the complete set of both volumes.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In preparing to compose a fiction founded on history, the writer of these pages thought it no necessary requisite of such a work that the principal characters appearing in it should be drawn from the historical...

Cosa fa di un libro un libro di successo? Nemmeno i più geniali matematici sapranno scovare un'equazione che descriva in modo assoluto il perfetto bestseller. Di certo, col senno di poi, sappiamo cosa fece di queste storie assemblate magistralmente un grande successo: otto grandissimi scrittori idolatrati...