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The Dead Secret

The Dead Secret  

Wilkie Collins and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
10 July 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920752
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536719.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536719
‘Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me! Terror when her pitying eyes look at me; terror when ... More
No Name

No Name  

Wilkie Collins and Virginia Blain (ed.)

Published in Print: 
10 July 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920769
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536733.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536733
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths ... More
Basil

Basil  

Wilkie Collins and Dorothy Goldman (ed.)

Published in Print: 
10 July 2008
eISBN: 
9780191920745
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536702.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536702
In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, ... More
Man and Wife

Man and Wife  

Wilkie Collins and Norman Page (ed.)

Published in Print: 
11 December 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921247
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538171.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538171
This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the ... More
The Law and the Lady

The Law and the Lady  

Wilkie Collins and Jenny Bourne Taylor (ed.)

Published in Print: 
14 August 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921230
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538164.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538164
Valeria Woodville’s first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about ... More
Armadale

Armadale  

Wilkie Collins and Catharine Peters (ed.)

Published in Print: 
11 December 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921223
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538157.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538157

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society.

Jezebel's Daughter

Jezebel's Daughter  

Wilkie Collins and Jason David Hall (ed.)

Published in Print: 
14 January 2016
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191919855
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198703211.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198703211
‘The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!’ How far is a mother prepared to go to secure her daughter's future? Madame Fontaine, widow of an eminent chemist, has both ... More
The Woman in White

The Woman in White  

Wilkie Collins and John Sutherland (ed.)

Published in Print: 
17 April 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920455
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199535637.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199535637
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest ‘Sensation Novel’. Walter Hartright’s mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, ... More
Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek  

Wilkie Collins and Catherine Peters (ed.)

Published in Print: 
28 May 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923159
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555611.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555611
At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the ... More
The Moonstone

The Moonstone (3 ed.)  

Wilkie Collins and Francis O'Gorman (ed.)

Published in Print: 
08 August 2019
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920202
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198819394.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198819394
‘Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?’ A celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country ... More

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