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Basil, benjamín de «un caballero inglés de inmensa fortuna», se enamora de un flechazo de una muchacha a la que un día ve casualmente en un ómnibus. Después de conocerla, accede a casarse con ella, c

La novela gira en torno a un misterioso lugar, un decadente palacio veneciano transformado en hotel. En este misterioso edificio convergen las vidas de los diferentes personajes que protagonizan la novela y en el interior de sus paredes seremos testigos de alucinaciones y pesadillas fantasmales que reflejan los rincones mas oscuros del alma humana.

The Wilkie Collins Collection presents four of the best titles by the Victorian master novelist - The Moonstone, No Name, The Woman In White and After Dark.

La dama de blanco es una novela epistolar escrita por Wilkie Collins en 1859, serializada de 1859 a 1860 en la revista literaria All the Year Round fundada por Charles Dickens. Fue publicada por prim

The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first and finest in the genre of "sensation novels".The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narrators draws on Collinss legal training, and as he points out in his Preamble: "the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness". In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed The Woman in White number 23 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBCs survey The Big Read.

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 18591860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of sensation novels.As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickenss own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickenss magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harpers Magazine in America. It caused an immediate sensation. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the books title. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar."

Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins.Armadale is the third of the four great novels produced by Collins during the 1860s: after The Woman in White (185960) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868).In the German spa town of Wildbad, the Scotchman Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions. Under Allans instructions, the confession is left to be opened by his son once he comes of age.Nineteen years later, the son of the murdered man, also Allan Armadale, rescues a man of his own age--Ozias Midwinter. The stranger reveals himself to Reverend Decimus Brock, a friend of Allan through his late mother, as another Allan Armadale (the son of the man who committed the murder). Ozias tells Brock of his desperate upbringing, having run away from his mother and stepfather (Mr. Neal).

The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first and finest in the genre of "sensation novels".The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narrators draws on Collinss legal training, and as he points out in his Preamble: "the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness". In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed The Woman in White number 23 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBCs survey The Big Read.

Often considered one of the first mystery novels, The Woman In White follows protagonist Walter Hartright, an art teacher, as he has a mysterious late night encounter on a London street with a lost woman, dressed all in white, who he later finds out had escaped from an asylum. The figure of this woman and the words they exchanged during their meeting come to haunt Walter, even as he accepts a job at Limmeridge House outside of London to instruct heiress Laura Farlie in art. Walter soon recognizes the astonishing resemblance between Laura and The Woman In White, and finds out that the mystery woman also used to live near Limmeridge and has connections to the Farlie family. A tragic, haunting tale about mistaken identities, unbelievable selfishness and cruelty, bust also true love and persevering friendship. A true classic.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Wilkie Collins: The Complete Short Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Wilkie Collins (18241889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone. Table of Contents: After The Dark The Ostler Mr. Wrays Cash Box The Queen of Hearts A House To Let The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room") My Miscellanies No Thoroughfare Miss or Mrs? "Blow up with the Brig!" The Hidden Cash The Perils of Certain English Prisoners The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices The Last Stage Coachman The Fatal Cradle The Frozen Deep and Other Stories The Captains Last Love The Dead Hand The Devils Spectacles The First Officers Confession Farmer Fairweather Fatal Fortune Fie! Fie! Or The Fair Physician Loves Random Shot The Midnight Mass Nine OClock A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino Potts The Haunted Hotel My Ladys Money Who Killed Zebedee Little Novels The Poetry Did It A Sad Death and A Brave Life The Twin Sisters Volpurno - Or The Student John Steadimans Account (The Wreck of The Golden Mary) A Message from The Sea The Seafaring Man The Dead Alive

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Woman in White (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, meets a mysterious and distressed woman dressed in white. He helps her on her way, but later learns that she has escaped from an asylum. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.

Cuando el anciano Allan Armadale escribe su terrible confesión en el lecho de muerte, no puede ni imaginarse las repercusiones que tendrá esa carta cuando su hijo recién nacido la lea años después. Por segunda vez, dos hombres con el mismo nombre y el mismo apellido se vera n implicados en la prosecucion de una herencia que parece maldita. Mientras tanto, se suceden las sigilosas intrigas de Lydia Gwilt, un personaje misterioso y perve rso que horrorizo a los lectores victorianos y que todavia hoy sobrecoge. Una mujer que llego a ser definida por la critica como una de las villanas mas curtidas. Con estos hilos y la complicidad del lector, el maestro Wilkie Collins teje una trama envolvente y seductora que brega entre identidades confusas, maldiciones heredadas, rivalidades amorosas, espionaje y asesinatos.

"Allí, en medio de la calzada ancha y bien iluminada por la luna, como si súbitamente hubiera brotado de la tierra o hubiera caído del cielo, me encontré la figura de una solitaria mujer ataviada de pies a cabeza con prendas de un blanco inmaculado." Tras su inquietante encuentro con la mujer de blanco, el joven profesor de dibujo Walter Hartright viaja a Cumberland para dar clases a dos hermanas, Laura y Marian. Pero los agradables dias en Limmeridge House acaban con la llegada del prometido de Laura y con la sorprendente reaparicion de la misteriosa mujer de blanco y su turbadora advertencia. En La mujer de blanco -un autentico best seller desde su primera publicacion-, el lector se ve arrastrado por un suspense continuo gracias a la destreza narrativa de Wilkie Collins y a los portentosos retratos de sus personajes. A traves de una trama prodigiosa que se desarrolla paulatinamente mediante los relatos de sus principales testigos, los oscuros secretos se iran desvelando.

Un precioso diamante de color cambiante conocido como la Piedra Lunar es robado de la estatua de un dios hindú por un oficial inglés pese a la maldición que protege la piedra. Años más tarde, su sobrina, una joven adinerada de la sociedad victoriana, hereda la joya por su cumpleaños. Pero la piedra no viaja sola. Tres hindues siguen sus pasos para recuperar la piedra sagrada. ¿Seran ellos los culpables de la desaparicion de la Piedra Lunar esa misma noche? ¿ O alguien se les ha adelantado?Años antes de la aparicion de Sherlock Holmes y su descendencia literaria, Wilkie Collins inauguro el genero de las novelas de detectives con La Piedra Lunar. En ella parte de una desaparicion aparentemente insoluble y recurre a una original estructura narrativa para desentrañar el misterio. Ante la dificultad para resolver el caso, cada uno de los testigos debe escribir detalladamente lo que vio y escucho durante esos dias. Collins despliega asi su talento literario y su profundo conocimiento de la condicion humana, y consigue perfilar nitidamente a cada uno de los personajes a traves de las sospechas, posibles motivaciones e historias secundarias que surgen en sus testimonios, asi como por medio de un contraste satirico de sus interpretaciones, en ocasiones opuestas. Una obra maestra que nos presenta una serie de hechos misteriosos desde los dispares puntos de vista de unos personajes inolvidables.

“En algunas de mis novelas anteriores me propuse establecer la influencia ejercida por las circunstancias sobre el carácter. En la presente historia he invertido el proceso. Mi meta ha sido señalar a

Ha tenido lugar un robo en la mansión de Lady Lydiard y todas las sospechas apuntan a Isabel Millar, su hija adoptiva. El Sr. Troy, abogado de Milady, va a ocuparse del caso, pero Robert Moody, administrador de la noble dama, prefiere contratar a un viejo y andrajoso timador. ¿Quién resolverá el misterio de la desaparición de las quinientas libras, el avispado abogado o el astuto y viejo Sharon?

"Wilkie Collins es el maestro de la trama, la zozobra y los desenlaces imprevistos" Jorge Luis Borges Dos hombres perdidos en las inmensidades heladas del Ártico. Uno de ellos, Richard Wardour, ha llevado a su joven compañero, Frank Aldersley, a esta atroz situacion por un deseo ardiente de venganza. En Inglaterra, una hermosa muchacha, conocedora del secreto de Richard, espera, abatida, noticias de su amado Frank, que ignora el sentimiento de odio que inspira en aquel. El desenlace de este planteamiento no llegara al lector, absorto en el suspense de la accion, hasta las paginas finales.

Wilkie Collins Adapted by Christopher Hall Activities by Frederick Garland Mystery & horror Late one night, on a lonely road near London, Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher, meets a solitary woman dressed in white. This is the opening scene of The Woman in White, a great Victorian sensation novel, full of mystery, excitement, and suspense. Who is the mysterious woman in white, and why is she alone on the road to London at midnight? Dossier: Victorian Asylums Exit test

Una de las mejores novelas de misterio e intriga de todos los tiempos. "¿Seguíamos nosotros dos unos caminos separados que nos llevaban hacia un mismo punto del futuro misterioso, donde volveríamos a encontrarnos?" Walter Hartright se traslada a Limmeridge para dar clases de dibujo a Laura, sobrina y heredera del baron Frederick Fairlie. Sin que ninguno de los dos pueda evitarlo, surge entre ellos un profundo amor, enturbiado por el compromiso de la muchacha con sir Percival Glyde, que solo busca arrebatarle su fortuna. La aparicion de una misteriosa mujer, sin embargo, cambiara de forma inevitable el curso de los acontecimientos. La dama de blanco, inspirada en un hecho real y publicada originalmente por entregas en una revista dirigida por Charles Dickens, ha constituido un exito ininterrumpido de ventas en todas las lenguas. Todo ello se debe a una trama argumental magnificamente desarrollada, que envuelve al lector en una atmosfera de misterio e intriga; al increible ritmo narrativo que va imponiendo el autor conforme avanza la historia, y sobre todo a la profundidad psicologica de los personajes y a la gran capacidad descriptiva de ambientes y situaciones.