Уильям Уилки Коллинз — классик английской литературы XIX века, вошедший в историю как родоначальник современной детективной литературы. Залогом успеха произведений Коллинза, из-под пера которого вышло двадцать три романа и четыре сборника рассказов и повестей, стало сочетание различных жанров: писатель умело объединял в своих книгах мелодраму, детектив и нравоописательный роман, щед ро приправляя их элементами готического романа.Именно в таком стиле написан самый известный роман Коллинза «Женщина в белом». В его основе лежит увлекательный сюжет о мрачном преступлении, тайна которого сокрыта за образом загадочной женщины, одетой в белое платье.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins’ Jezebel’s Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around Mrs. Fontaine, a sinister widow who uses her dead husband’s poisons and antidotes to control the futures of those around her. Filled with forensic details found in the best detective fiction, Jezebel’s Daughter is remarkable in the way it handles the treatment of mental illness at the turn of the 20th Century.

Magdalen Vanstone and Norah — her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.

Magdalen Vanstone and Norah — her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins’ Jezebel’s Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around Mrs. Fontaine, a sinister widow who uses her dead husband’s poisons and antidotes to control the futures of those around her. Filled with forensic details found in the best detective fiction, Jezebel’s Daughter is remarkable in the way it handles the treatment of mental illness at the turn of the 20th Century.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Dead Secret was Collins’s first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and ingenious, Rosamond’s determined detective work uncovers a shocking truth.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Armadale is a novel by Collins, first published in 1864-66. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Armadale is a novel by Collins, first published in 1864-66. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

Сюжет социально-критического романа Уилки Коллинза «Муж и жена» основан на правовом парадоксе, который приводит к непредсказуемым поворотам человеческих судеб. Спустя три месяца после освобождения из тюрьмы мистер Ванборо женится, но несовершенное и противоречивое законодательство Великобритании становится верным помощником и соучастником его вероломных преступлений. Дочь мистера Ванборо решает начать свой собственный путь к семейному счастью. Удастся ли изменить бесправное положение английской женщины хотя бы в следующем поколении? Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a complete mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collins’s success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. Sister Rose is Set against the background of the French Revolution and concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville’s land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine’s father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his mother to protect Rose and arouses Danville’s animosity.

The secret of Wilkie Collins’s success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot-skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. The Yellow Mask — a complete mystery novel.

In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens’ periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these well-loved men of letters. Through their fictional counterparts, the men relentlessly satirize Dickens’ maniacal energy and Collins’ idleness. The result is an exuberant diary of a journey and a rare insight into one of literature’s most famed and intriguing friendships.

Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady is a fascinating example of Collins’ later fiction. Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband’s past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife, Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband’s name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite nineteenth century society.

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt. Allied to two different ships, the two men at first have no cause to meet — until disaster strikes and they find themselves united in a battle for survival. It cannot be long before they discover the nature of their rivalry.

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company — the executors are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean — across the Alps in winter.

Известный английский писатель Уилки Коллинз (1824-1889), близкий друг и ученик Чарльза Диккенса, считается одним из основоположников детективного жанра.Роман «Лунный камень» интересен не только своим захватывающим сюжетом, но и тонким английским юмором, подробным описанием нравов и быта викторианской Англии.Знаменитый алмаз, поискам которого и посвящен роман, приносит несчастье тому, кто им завладеет. Но разве можно избежать искушения и отказаться от Лунного камня?

Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era, Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. My Lady’s Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are a lot of possible suspects she must sort through. One of them — an honest girl Isabella

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In Basil’s secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper’s sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society,

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

Жизнь начинающего художника Уолтера Хартрайта, получившего в уединенном имении необременительную должность учителя рисования, навеки изменилась после встречи с таинственной молодой незнакомкой, одетой в белое…Кто она? Почему так отчаянно проклинает какого-то баронета? Что за всадники скачут по ее следу? И наконец, почему она похожа на одну из учениц Уолтера, словно сестра-­близнец?Решив выяснить это, художник, сам того не подозревая, оказывается впутан в загадочную историю, полную тщательно хранимых годами фамильных секретов. Секретов, опасных для всех — и прежде всего для того, кто попытается их раскрыть…

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. He is is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. However, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel.

William Willcie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This Collins’ work were classified at the time as «sensation novel», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins’ ninth published novel, which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before witnesses, or in writing, were regarded in Scotland as being married in law.

Уильям Уилки Коллинз — классик английской литературы XIX века, вошедший в историю как родоначальник современной детективной литературы. Залогом успеха произведений Коллинза, из-под пера которого вышло двадцать три романа и четыре сборника рассказов и повестей, стало сочетание различных жанров: писатель — мастер интриги и увлекательного сюжета — умело объединял в своих книгах мелодраму, детектив и нравоописательный роман, щедро приправляя их элементами готического романа.

В настоящем издании вниманию читателей предлагается знаменитый роман Уилки Коллинза «Лунный камень», а также полная тайн повесть «Желтая маска».

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.