Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Mad Monkton And Other Stories
Download Mad Monkton And Other Stories full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Mad Monkton And Other Stories ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Mad Monkton and Other Stories by : Wilkie Collins
Download or read book Mad Monkton and Other Stories written by Wilkie Collins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the best-selling creator of the vogue for 'sensation fiction' in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length novel. In particular, he produced a stream of often brillant and original short stories. Adapting thetradition of the Gothic tale of terror, he wrote ghost stories with a distinctively contemporary flavour and also made a major contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective story. This volume has a substantial and informative introduction which places the stories in the context of Collins's career and the Victorian literary scene. It brings together samples of his work from three decades and demonstrates that as a purveyor of mystery, suspense, and the uncanny, as achronicler of the dark underside of everyday life in the mid-Victorian period, and as a story-teller who quickly seizes the reader's interest and refuses to let go, Collins has few rivals.
Download or read book Mad Monkton written by Collins W. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Department of the Interior, Including the Additions Made from May 31, 1877, to February 1, 1881 by : Anonymous
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Department of the Interior, Including the Additions Made from May 31, 1877, to February 1, 1881 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Department of the Interior, Including the Additions Made from May 3, 1877, to February 1, 1881 by : United States. Department of the Interior. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Department of the Interior, Including the Additions Made from May 3, 1877, to February 1, 1881 written by United States. Department of the Interior. Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Dept. of the Interior, Containing Additions Made During 1873 and 1874 by : United States. Dept. of the Interior. Library
Download or read book Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Dept. of the Interior, Containing Additions Made During 1873 and 1874 written by United States. Dept. of the Interior. Library and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ioláni; or, Tahíti as It Was by : Wilkie Collins
Download or read book Ioláni; or, Tahíti as It Was written by Wilkie Collins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written 150 years ago, never published, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collins's earliest novel now appears in print for the first time. Ioláni is a sensational romance--a tale of terror and suspense, bravery and betrayal, set against the lush backdrop of Tahiti. The book's complicated history is worthy of a writer famous for intricate plots hinging on long-kept secrets. Collins wrote the book as a young man in the early 1840s, twenty years before The Moonstone and The Woman in White made his name among Victorian novelists. He failed to find a publisher for the work, shelved the manuscript for years, and eventually gave it to an acquaintance. It disappeared into the hands of private collectors and remained there--acquiring mythical status as a lost novel--from the turn of the century until its sudden appearance on the rare book market in New York in 1991. This first edition appears with the permission of the new owners, who keep the mystery alive by remaining anonymous. The novel is set in Tahiti prior to European contact. It tells the story of the diabolical high priest, Ioláni , and the heroic young woman, Idüa, who bears his child. Determined to defy the Tahitian custom of killing firstborn children, Idüa and her friend Aimáta flee with the baby and take refuge among Ioláni's enemies. The vengeful priest pursues them, setting into motion a plot that features civil war, sorcery, sacrificial rites, wild madmen, treachery, and love. Collins explores themes that he would return to again and again in his career: oppression by sinister, patriarchal figures; the bravery of forceful, unorthodox women; the psychology of the criminal mind; the hypocrisy of moralists; and Victorian ideas of the exotic. As Ira Nadel shows in his introduction, the novel casts new light on Collins's development as a writer and on the creation of his later masterpieces. A sample page from the manuscript appears as the frontispiece to this edition. The publication of Ioláni is a major literary event: a century and half late, Wilkie Collins makes his literary debut. Originally published in 1999. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Unequal Partners by : Lillian Nayder
Download or read book Unequal Partners written by Lillian Nayder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relationship. She challenges the widely accepted image of Dickens as a mentor of younger writers such as Collins, points to the ways in which Dickens controlled and profited from his literary "satellites," and charts Collins's development as an increasingly significant and independent author. The pair's collaborations for Household Words and All the Year Round explicitly addressed Victorian labor disputes and political unrest, and Nayder reads the stories in terms of the social and imperial conflicts that both provided their themes and enabled Dickens and Collins to mediate their own personal and professional differences. Nayder's discussion of the collaboration and its principals is greatly enriched by archival research into unpublished and unfamiliar material, including the manuscripts of The Frozen Deep.
Download or read book Trade Circular Annual for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perils of English Prisoners by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Perils of English Prisoners written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cyrilla, Or, The Mysterious Engagement ... by : Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus
Download or read book Cyrilla, Or, The Mysterious Engagement ... written by Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chevalier written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Six Years Later by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book Six Years Later written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Booksellers Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3 by : Andrew Gasson
Download or read book The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3 written by Andrew Gasson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.
Book Synopsis The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza. Revised and Corrected, with All the Original Notes, Etc by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza. Revised and Corrected, with All the Original Notes, Etc written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Invention of Murder by : Judith Flanders
Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Book Synopsis Reality's Dark Light by : Maria K. Bachman
Download or read book Reality's Dark Light written by Maria K. Bachman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a Victorian culture ingrained with strict social etiquette and societal norms, Wilkie Collins composed novels that contained asocial, even anarchic, impulses. A contemporary of Dickens, Collins creates a world more Kafkaesque than Dickensian, a world populated by doppelgangers, secret selves, oddballs, and grotesques. The essays of Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins purposefully work to expand Collins's legacy beyond The Woman in White and The Moonstone; they move well past the simplistic view of Collins's works as "sensation novels," "detective novels," or even "popular fiction," all labels that carry with them pejorative connotations. This collection represents the range of Collins's aesthetic project from various critical perspectives. New methodological and theoretical approaches are applied both to him most popular and to his lesser-known works, giving the reader a broader picture of this multifaceted and undervalued writer The Editors: Maria K. Bachman in an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Newsletter, Literature and Psychology, The Dickensian, and Dickens Studies Annual. Don Richard Cox is a professor of English and associate dean at the University of Tennessee. His books include Sexuality andVictorian Literature (Tennessee), Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Annotated Bibliography. He is the coeditor, with Maria Bachman, of an edition of Wilkie Collins's final novel, Blind Love
