The Collected Works of Wilkie Collins E-Book

Wilkie Collins

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 24000 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Woman in White • The Moonstone • No Name • The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice • A House to Let (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter) • Armadale • After Dark • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle ApprenticesCharles Dickens and • The Law and the Lady • The Frozen Deep • Stories by English Authors: England • The Queen of Hearts • Poor Miss Finch • The Dead Secret • The Black Robe • Man and Wife • No ThoroughfareCharles Dickens and • Basil • Hide and Seek • The Dead Alive • Miss or Mrs.? • Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time • Blind Love • The Fallen Leaves • Little Novels • "I Say No" • Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome • The Legacy of Cain • A Rogue's Life • My Lady's Money • The Two Destinies • The New Magdalen • Jezebel's Daughter • The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story • Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • My Miscellanies • The Guilty River • A Fair Penitent • My Miscellanies • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (Charles Dickens)

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Contents

The Woman in White

THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT

(of Clement's Inn, Teacher of Drawing)

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

The End of Hartright's Narrative.

THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GILMORE

(of Chancery Lane, Solicitor)

I

II

III

IV

The End of Mr. Gilmore's Narrative.

THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE

(in Extracts from her Diary)

LIMMERIDGE HOUSE, Nov. 8.[1]

II

[The First Epoch of the Story closes here.]

THE SECOND EPOCH

THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

THE STORY CONTINUED BY FREDERICK FAIRLIE, ESQ., OF LIMMERIDGE HOUSE[2]

THE STORY CONTINUED BY ELIZA MICHELSON

(Housekeeper at Blackwater Park)

I

II

THE STORY CONTINUED IN SEVERAL NARRATIVES

1. THE NARRATIVE OF HESTER PINHORN, COOK IN THE SERVICE OF COUNT FOSCO

[Taken down from her own statement]

2. THE NARRATIVE OF THE DOCTOR

3. THE NARRATIVE OF JANE GOULD

4. THE NARRATIVE OF THE TOMBSTONE

5. THE NARRATIVE OF WALTER HARTRIGHT

[The Second Epoch of the Story closes here.]

THE THIRD EPOCH

THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

THE STORY CONTINUED BY MRS. CATHERICK

THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

THE STORY CONTINUED BY ISIDOR, OTTAVIO, BALDASSARE FOSCO

THE COUNT'S NARRATIVE

THE STORY CONCLUDED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT

I

II

III

RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS;

Notes in Cornwall taken A-Foot.

By WILKIE COLLINS,

AUTHOR OF "ANTONINA," "THE WOMAN IN WHITE," ETC.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY: NEW BURLINGTON STREET. Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1861.

DEDICATED TO THE COMPANION OF MY WALK THROUGH CORNWALL, HENRY C. BRANDLING.

PREFACE

TO

THE PRESENT EDITION.

CONTENTS.

RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS.

I.

A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.

II.

A CORNISH FISHING TOWN.

III.

HOLY WELLS AND DRUID RELICS.

FOOTNOTES:

IV.

CORNISH PEOPLE.

FOOTNOTES:

V.

LOO-POOL

VI.

THE LIZARD.

VII.

THE PILCHARD FISHERY.

VIII.

THE LAND'S END.

IX.

BOTALLACK MINE.

X.

THE MODERN DRAMA IN CORNWALL.

XI.

THE ANCIENT DRAMA IN CORNWALL.

FOOTNOTES:

XII.

THE NUNS OF MAWGAN.

FOOTNOTES:

XIII.

LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN COAST.

POSTSCRIPT TO

RAMBLES BEYOND RAILWAYS.

THE CRUISE OF THE TOMTIT

TO

The Scilly Islands.

THE CRUISE OF THE TOMTIT.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

LITTLE NOVELS

MRS. ZANT AND THE GHOST.

I.

MISS MORRIS AND THE STRANGER.

I.

MR. COSWAY AND THE LANDLADY.

I.

MR. MEDHURST AND THE PRINCESS.

I.

MR. LISMORE AND THE WIDOW.

I.

MISS JEROMETTE AND THE CLERGYMAN.

I.

MISS MINA AND THE GROOM

I.

MR. LEPEL AND THE HOUSEKEEPER

FIRST EPOCH.

MR. CAPTAIN AND THE NYMPH.

I.

MR. MARMADUKE AND THE MINISTER.

I.

MR. PERCY AND THE PROPHET.

PART 1.—THE PREDICTION.

CHAPTER I.

THE QUACK.

CHAPTER II.

THE NUMBERS.

CHAPTER III.

THE CONSULTATION.

CHAPTER IV.

THE MAN.

PART II.—THE FULFILLMENT.

CHAPTER V.

THE BALLROOM.

CHAPTER VI.

LOVE.

CHAPTER VII.

POLITICS.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE WARNING.

CHAPTER IX.

OFFICIAL SECRETS

CHAPTER X.

THE ELOPEMENT.

CHAPTER XI.

PURSUIT AND DISCOVERY.

MISS BERTHA AND THE YANKEE.

MISS DULANE AND MY LORD.

Part I.

TWO REMONSTRATIONS.

Part II

PLATONIC MARRIAGE.

Part III.

NEWS FROM THE COLONY.

Part IV.

THE NIGHT NURSE.

MR. POLICEMAN AND THE COOK.

A FIRST WORD FOR MYSELF.

THE LEGACY OF CAIN

First Period: 1858-1859. EVENTS IN THE PRISON, RELATED BY THE GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER I. THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINS.

CHAPTER II. THE MURDERESS ASKS QUESTIONS.

CHAPTER III. THE CHILD APPEARS.

CHAPTER IV. THE MINISTER SAYS YES.

CHAPTER V. MISS CHANCE ASSERTS HERSELF.

CHAPTER VI. THE DOCTOR DOUBTS.

CHAPTER VII. THE MURDERESS CONSULTS THE AUTHORITIES.

CHAPTER VIII. THE MINISTER SAYS GOOD-BY.

CHAPTER IX. THE GOVERNOR RECEIVES A VISIT.

CHAPTER X. MISS CHANCE REAPPEARS.

Second Period: 1875. THE GIRLS AND THE JOURNALS.

CHAPTER XI. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XII. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XIII. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XIV. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XV. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XVI. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XVII. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XVIII. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XIX. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XX. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXI. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXII. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXIII. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXIV. EUNICE'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXV. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXVI. HELENA'S DIARY.

CHAPTER XXVII. EUNICE'S DIARY.