Vengeance, meurtre et complot sont les ingredients de cette intrigue qui entraine le lecteur dans une aventure magistralement orchestree par Wilkie Collins, le precurseur des romans a suspense. Mais c'est aussi l'histoire d'un amour troublant et emouvant entre la jeune Iris et Lord Harry, un amour auquel elle devra renoncer mais qui resurgira brusquement dans sa vie, l'entrainant dans des mesaventures insoupconnees."
Vengeance, meurtre et complot sont les ingredients de cette intrigue qui entraine le lecteur dans une aventure magistralement orchestree par Wilkie Co...
A large country house situated on the west coast of Cornwall, a mysterious letter and a dead Secret.... The Dead Secret is an exciting story that has the ability to keep the reader hooked and a brilliantly written Masterpiece.
A large country house situated on the west coast of Cornwall, a mysterious letter and a dead Secret.... The Dead Secret is an exciting story that has ...
Eine Landhause an der Westkuste von Cornwall...Ein Geheimnisvoller Brief...Und ein schreckliches Geheimnis.... Wilkie Collins war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller."
Eine Landhause an der Westkuste von Cornwall...Ein Geheimnisvoller Brief...Und ein schreckliches Geheimnis.... Wilkie Collins war ein britischer Schri...
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. 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." 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 (including nearly all the principal characters) draws on Collins's legal training, and as he points out in his Preamble: "the story here presented will be told by more...
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely rega...
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child?William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) 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. Born into the family of painter William...
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the pri...
