Written by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
by Wilkie CollinsThe Moonstone is written by Wilkie Collins, an English novelist and author of first English detective novel “The Moonstone” who is also remembered for his literary contributions of Armadale, No Name, and The Woman in White. Colonel Herncastle, while serving British army in India, steals a moonstone and brings to his England home. His family shun..
The Woman in White
by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White is considered to be the first mystery novel which has been remembered for creation of sensation novels genre in the literary world. This novel is written by Wilkie Collins, an English novelist remembered for his literary contributions such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Walter Hartright is hired a..
Armadale
by Wilkie CollinsArmadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White and No Name, and before The Moonstone. The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, ide..
Basil
by Wilkie CollinsBasil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil was published in 1852 and dedicated to Charles Ward. It was Collins's second full-length work of fiction and first contemporary novel. In the introduction, he warns the reader that he has 'not hesitated to violate the conventiona..
The Black Robe
by Wilkie CollinsWilkie Collins’s 1881 The Black Robe tells the story of the misadventures of Lewis Romayne in a novel which deals with depression, madness, a fatal duel, marital breakdown, capture by South American ‘natives’, ill-motivated religious conversion, bigamy and disinheritance. The somewhat mad premise is that scheming Jesuit Father Branwell is out to wi..
The Dead Alive
by Wilkie CollinsThe Dead Alive, also called John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by Wilkie Collins based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. It was reprinted with a side-by-side examination of the case by Rob Warden in 2005 by Northwestern Press. This novel is based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Step..
The Fallen Leaves
by Wilkie CollinsThe Fallen Leaves of the title are 'The people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life...the friendless and the lonely, the wounded and the lost'. The novel was not well received and a planned Second Series, showing an unconventional marriage failing because of outside pressures, was never written.The novel follows the fortunes of four w..
Jezebel's Daughter
by Wilkie CollinsJezebel's Daughter is a sensational novel published in 1880 and dedicated to Alberto Caccia, Collins's Italian translator. Based on the 1858 play, The Red Vial, Collins's attempt to write for 'the masses' resulted in an unduly melodramatic tone. The novel, however, is notable for the way it handles the treatment of lunatics and the ment..