Written by Wilkie Collins
Little Novels
by Wilkie CollinsLittle Novels (1887) is a collection of stories by Wilkie Collins about love, marriage, and the social barriers of class and money. Some deal with crime and the supernatural. The collection contains stories like Mrs Zant and the Ghost, a supernatural story, Mr Policeman and the Cook, a story of revenge and murder, and Miss Mina and the Groom.Unlike..
Man and Wife
by Wilkie CollinsMan and Wife was Wilkie Collins’ ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction.The novel opens with a Prologue forty years before the real ..
Miss or Mrs.?
by Wilkie CollinsNatalie Graybrooke is in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie, but engaged to Mr. Turlington, an older man who covets her fortune and whom she detests. Turlington is the executor of Natalie's father's estate. When Natalie secretly marries her cousin, Turlington arranges to have Natalie's father murdered, to gain control of his fortune...
No Name
by Wilkie CollinsNo Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round before book publication. The story is told in eight major parts, called Scenes.Scene One begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the..
The Queen of Hearts
by Wilkie CollinsThe elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them was to last only six weeks, but for a very certain reason, the gentlemen must find a way to prolong her visit and get Jessie to stay for ten more days..
My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Wilkie CollinsPreface from the Book: The various papers of which the following collection is composed, were most of them written some years since, and were all originally published—with many more, which I have not thought it desirable to reprint—in 'Household Words,' and in the earlier volumes of 'All the Year Round.' They were fortunate enough to be received wi..
My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Wilkie CollinsPreface from the book: We hear a great deal of lamentation now-a-days, proceeding mostly from elderly people, on the decline of the Art of Conversation among us. Old ladies and gentlemen with vivid recollections of the charms of society fifty years ago, are constantly asking each other why the great talkers of their youthful days have found no succ..
The Two Destinies
by Wilkie CollinsMary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost..