The law and the lady
One of the wonders of marriage is knowing that both spouses, together and in harmony, commit themselves to facing whatever good and bad life may bring. In this story, however, it seems that only Valeria,...
COLLINS, Wilkie
John Jago Ghost
With his talent for intrigue, Collins presents the troubled relationship among the members of a North American farming family, seen through the eyes of an English relative who comes to spend a few days with...
Armadale
The old Allan Armadale confesses in writing, on his deathbed, a horrible secret that only his son should know when he comes of age. Twenty years later, this mixed-race son goes by the name Ozias Midwinter....
Poor Miss Finch
Collins does not approach blindness from an idealized or sentimental perspective, but as it truly is in reality. Every time the protagonist, the unfortunate Miss Finch, speaks or acts and refers to her...
Heart and science
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is the great master of intrigue and pioneer of the detective novel. He proves it again in Heart and Science, where he combines a romantic plot with the question of the limits of...
The Woman in White
The story is related by a series of characters involved in the intrigue of Walter Hartright's meeting of an agitated woman on a lonely road at midnight. She was dressed all in white and seeks his help to...
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
It is a little book written four-handedly in 1857 by two friends: Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The first part is better, where the English sense of humor, nonchalance and entertainment stand out… The...
No name
Norah and Magdalen, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Vanstone, find themselves disinhertired and stigmatized after the sudden death of their parents, when they discover that they were born out of wedlok. Their...