Wilkie Collins

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet.

The Woman in White

The moonstone

The Haunted Hotel

No name

Beyazli Kadin

The woman in white - A romantic mysterious story

Dorothy Goldman

Basil

THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived: the sense that feels. The record of this event will of necessity produce conflicting impressions. It will raise, in some minds, the doubt which reason asserts; it will invigorate, in other minds, the hope which faith justifies; and it will leave the terrible question of the destinies of man, where centuries of vain investigation have left it—in the dark. Having only undertaken in the present narrative to lead the way along a succession of events, the writer declines to follow modern examples by thrusting himself and his opinions on the public view. He returns to the shadow from which he has emerged, and leaves the opposing forces of incredulity and belief to fight the old battle over again, on the old ground.

(Wilkie Collins Masterpiece Collection)

Mrs. Zant and the Ghost, the Original Short Story

The Lady of Glenwith Grange

La donna in bianco

The legendary Moonstone diamond is presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. Looted by Rachel’s uncle from an Indian temple, it is said to carry a curse. Staked out in the grounds surrounding Rachel’s country house, a band of Hindu Brahmins watch and wait for an opportunity to restore the Moonstone to its rightful place. When the gem disappears overnight, suspicion falls upon the Brahmins, but then Inspector Cuff of Scotland Yard arrives and begins to unwrap a mystery as fascinating as it is complex.T.S. Eliot declared The Moonstone (1868) 'the first and greatest of English detective novels'.

The Moonstone

Heart and Science (Broadview Literary Texts)

Considered one of the mystery genre's greatest novels, The Woman in White was first serialized from 1859 to 1860. Published as a book in 1860, it was among the first mystery novels. Setting the stage for other works of mystery fiction, The Woman in White is an early detective story starring Walter Hartright, a young art teacher from London who works to find the true identity of a mysterious woman in white who appears to be in deep trouble.

A Terribly Strange Bed

An exploration of 'destined spirits' and supernatural visions, with a romantic twist.

The Two Destinies

Joseph Conrad

Rudyard Kipling

Agatha Christie

Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness

The Ultimate British Mystery Megapack FIVE MYSTERIES FOR ONE LOW PRICE! THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES By Agatha Christie Agatha Christie introduces the world to her detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in this 'cozy mystery' classic. 'Styles' was Christie's first published novel, introducing not only the Belgian super-sleuth but also Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. When we first meet Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, he is settling in England near the home of Emily Cavendish, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When a woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. THE SECRET AGENT By Joseph Conrad Few people realize that Joseph Conrad invented the terrorist-spy genre in 1907 with his novella The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. The Secret Agent was one of the “the three works of literature most cited in the American media" around the two weeks following September 11, 2001.” The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. 'The Secret Agent' is notable as one of Conrad's later political novels, which move away from his typical tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism and depicts the type of anarchist and revolutionary groups which sprouted up before many of the social uprisings of the early twentieth century. Recently, 'The Secret Agent' was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING By Rudyard Kipling Billy Fish: “He wants to know if you are gods.” Peachy Carnehan: “Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing.” Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella 'The Man Who Would Be King' is an under-rated gem. The powerful story of lost treasure, love and human weakness was adapted into a Best Picture nominated movie in 1976 but has largely been forgotten by today's generation. A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY By Baroness Orczy A Five Part Lady Molly Mystery! From the author of The Scarlet Pimpernell, comes a story featuring one of literature's first female detectives. Molly Robertson-Kirk a.k.a. Lady Molly shares the same mental prowess as C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes but brings a woman's wit to the table making for a formidable crime buster. Join her as she solves the murder of Major Ceeley on Christmas Eve in Inverness, Scotland. THE DEAD SECRET By Wilkie Collins The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Treverton's motive was to provide her husband with a child, being apparently unable to bear children herself). Sarah writes down the details of the secret from the words of the dying Mrs Treverton, and hides the paper bearing the message in an unused room at Porthgenna. Much of the novel is set in Cornwall, one of Collins' favourite English counties, which also features in his early melodrama 'Basil.'

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the Secret Agent, a Christmas Tragedy, the Man Who Would Be King and the Dead Secret

British Mystery Megapack Volume 3

Pedra da Lua

Armadale

George Eliot

D. H. Lawrence

James Joyce

Charles Dickens

Charlotte Brontë

G. K. Chesterton

H. G. Wells

Daniel Defoe

Oscar Wilde

W. B. Yeats

John Milton

Mary Shelley

Bram Stoker

Elizabeth von Arnim

Weedon Grossmith

George Grossmith

Laurence Sterne

Kenneth Grahame

John Keats

Henry Fielding

Frances Hodgson Burnett

William Shakespeare

Jonathan Swift

E. M. Forster

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lewis Carroll

T. S. Eliot

Jane Austen

George MacDonald

Sir Walter Scott

Emily Brontë

Thomas Hardy

J. M. Barrie

Robert Louis Stevenson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Ann Ward Radcliffe

George Bernard Shaw

P. B. Shelley

Good Press presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Odes (John Keats) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Middlemarch (George Eliot) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) Howards End (E. M. Forster) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)

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