Collins W. — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

The Black Robe = Человек в черном: на англ.яз

Thu, 23 May 2024 23:07:06 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Black Robe. Человек в черном (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel. In this story of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves. Collins is best known for originating the genre of the «sensation novel» that is the precursor of the modern suspense and detective novels.

Poor Miss Finch = Бедная мисс Финч: на англ.яз

Thu, 23 May 2024 22:21:05 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «Poor Miss Finch. Бедная мисс Финч (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Poor Miss Finch is Collins’s intriguing story about Lucilla Finch, a blind girl and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better-known novels but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins gives one of the best accounts in fiction of blindness and its implications.

The Haunted Hote & Other Strange Tales

Sat, 18 May 2024 12:30:03 +0000

This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo coverted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale.The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil’s spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness.

Basil = Тайный брак: на англ.яз

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:15:50 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «Basil. Тайный брак (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In his novel Basil Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. The Basil’s secret and UN-CONSUMMATED marriage to the linendraper’s sexually precocious daughter lead to the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death.

No name II = Без права на наследство 2: на англ.яз

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:31:05 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «No name II = Без права на наследство 2 (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Written in the early 1860s, No Name was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers. 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 have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices = Ленивое путешествие двух досужих подмастерьев: на англ.яз

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 11:31:05 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Ленивое путешествие двух досужих подмастерьев (на английском языке)»: William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices tells the story of sightseeing trip to Cumberland of Charles Dickens and his friend, the rising star of literature, Wilkie Collins. Through their fictional counterparts, they relentlessly satirize. Dickens’ maniacal energy and Collins’ idleness. The result is an exuberant diary of a journey and a rare insight into one of literature’s most famed and intriguing friendships.

The Moonstone

Sat, 20 May 2023 11:51:33 +0000

Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian men, Brahmin guardians of the diamond are attempting to reclaim the stone in order to return it to their sacred Hindu Idol.Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins’ tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication.

John Jago’s Ghost = Призрак Джона Джаго, или Живой покойник: на англ.яз

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 04:29:05 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «John Jago’s Ghost.Призрак Джона Джаго, или Живой покойник (на английском языке)»: William Wilkie Collins 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). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice = Отель с приведениями: Тайна Венеции: кн. на англ.яз

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:19:05 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice = Отель с привидениями: Тайна Венеции (на английском языке)»: William Wilkie Collins 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). Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.

Novels = Новеллы: на англ.яз

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:30:25 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «Novels = Новеллы (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This volume contains some of his mysterious stories. John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. The Family Secret and Dream Woman are classic mysteries. And Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. Collins’s works were classified at the time as «sensation novels», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction.