Collins Wilkie — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

The Woman In White

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:26:43 +0000

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:03:10 +0000

Манит призрак Венеции? Познакомьтесь с её тайнами в «Таинственном отеле» Уилки Коллинза! Город дворцов, каналов, смерти и загадок ждёт вас.Уилки Коллинз – создатель первого детективного романа на английском языке, плодовитый писатель, мастер мистики и загадок. Его язык вполне современен и понятен, поэтому эта книга станет хорошим выбором для тех, кто хочет попробовать начать читать в оригинале. В «Таинственном отеле» вы столкнетесь с таинственной смертью и исчезновением, произошедшем в одном из старых палаццо Венеции. Старый дворец переделали в модный отель, но загадка всё ещё притягивает тех, кто связан с ней, сводя их с ума. Дерзните посетить этот отель сами, если осмелитесь.Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь мистическим детективом Уилки Коллинза в оригинале!

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 08:43:10 +0000

The Fallen Leaves = Опавшие листья. Т. 3.: на англ.яз

Fri, 24 May 2024 02:51:06 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Fallen Leaves = Опавшие листья. Т. 3. (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Fallen Leaves novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and also by secrets from the past.

The Haunted Hotel & No Thoroughfare = Отель с приведениями. В тупике: на англ.яз

Fri, 24 May 2024 02:51:06 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Haunted Hotel & No Thoroughfare = Отель с привидениями. В тупике (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The novella The Haunted Hotel is 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 converted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. No Thoroughfare is a stage play produced by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company — the executors, to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean — across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine, Marguerite, and a faithful company servant.

The Two Destinies & The Frozen Deep = Две судьбы и Морозная глубина: на англ.яз

Fri, 24 May 2024 02:51:06 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Two Destinies & The Frozen Deep = Две судьбы и Морозная глубина (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Two Destinies explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skillful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first does not seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost supernatural. The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard. Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt.

The Moonstone = Лунный камень: на англ.яз

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:59:06 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Moonstone = Лунный камень (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel, is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that transcends the genre it created, in the artfulness of its plotting, in its compassionate depiction of servants, and in its enlightened resolution of the theme of the British Empire, its crimes and their consequences. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.

The Woman in White = Женщина в белом: роман на англ.яз

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:31:41 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «The Woman in White = Женщина в белом (роман на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his ‘charming’ friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

Heart And Science = Сердце и наука: на англ.яз

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:01:22 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «Heart And Science = Сердце и наука (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada’s drier climes in order to recover his health, Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina.

Hide and Seek = Игра в прятки: на англ.яз

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:01:22 +0000

Автор: Collins William Wilkie, «Hide and Seek = Игра в прятки (на английском языке)»: Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Hide and Seek is the story about the girl named Mary — they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael. All they did know about her identity was that she’d lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life itself: a bracelet made of brown human hair with the initials MG tied into it.