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A Fair Penitent

A Fair Penitent

Wilkie Collins

Delve into the seamy underside of eighteenth-century Paris in this gripping short story from beloved British author Wilkie Collins.
I Say No

I Say No

Wilkie Collins

In the mood for a tightly plotted whodunit? Check out "I Say No" from Wilkie Collins, an author recognized as one of the most important figures in the development of the detective fiction genre.
Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins

Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins

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The essays of Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins purposefully work to expand Collins's legacy beyond The Woman in White and The Moonstone; they move well past the simplistic view of Collins's works as "sensation novels," ...
Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination

Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination

Alexander Grinstein

Wilkie Collins is mostly remembered today for his two classic mystery novels, "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone."
Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Lyn Pykett

AUTHORS IN CONTEXT The Brontës Patricia Ingham Wilkie Collins Lyn Pykett Charles Dickens Andrew Sanders George Eliot Tim Dolin Thomas Hardy Patricia Ingham Oscar Wilde John Sloan Virginia Woolf Michael Whitworth OXFORD ...
Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Lyn Pykett

The book includes a chronology of Collins's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.
Wilkie Collins: Women, Property, and Propriety

Wilkie Collins: Women, Property, and Propriety

Philip O'Neill

However, this is to ignore his prolific and varied output. This book offers a new and fresh appraisal of the Collins novels and treats in detail many of the author's works all but ignored by the twentieth century reader.
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Wilkie Collins

Twelve supernatural tales are accompanied by a discussion of Collins' life and literary achievements
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the ...

Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the ...

A.B. Emrys

This text explores how the formal dialogue between Collins and Vera Caspary has linked sensation fiction with noir thrillers and film noir"--Provided by publisher.
Through the narrow gate: the mythological consciousness of ...

Through the narrow gate: the mythological consciousness of ...

Christine Wilkie

the mythological consciousness of Russell Hoban Christine Wilkie, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs. 8*6 © 1989 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or ...
THE LAW AND THE LADY

THE LAW AND THE LADY

WILKIE COLLINS

Just as she touched a cake with the tips of her fingers her hand was jerked away by a pull at the string, so savagely cruel in the nimble and devilish violence of it that I felt inclined to snatch Benjamin's cane out of his hand and break it over ...
The Thing About Thugs

The Thing About Thugs

Tabish Khair

Ranging from skull-lined mansions to underground tunnels a ghostly people call home, The Thing about Thugs is a feat of imagination to rival Wilkie Collins or Michael Chabon.
Dick Francis

Dick Francis

Melvyn P. Barnes

Mystery Writers Bruce Cassiday, General Editor Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir P. D.James by Norma Siebenheller John D . MacDonald by David Geherin Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle by Audrey ...
The Evolution of Snow White: A Close Textual Analysis of ...

The Evolution of Snow White: A Close Textual Analysis of ...

John Hanson Saunders

Wilkie-Stibbs supports this, “Disney adaptations of fairy tales are particularly interesting to an intertextuality of children's literature because, as touchstones of ... 256 Christine Wilkie-Stibbs, “Intertextuality and the Child,” in Peter Hunt ed.
The secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the ...

The secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the ...

Carol Billman

RECOGNITIONS Mystery Writers Bruce Cassiday, General Editor Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir P. D. James by Norma Siebenheller John D. MacDonald by David Geherin Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle ...
Victorian Children’s Literature: Experiencing Abjection, ...

Victorian Children’s Literature: Experiencing Abjection, ...

Ruth Y. Jenkins

70 The process through which this engagement with the texts enables this is detailed in Christine Wilkie-Stibbs's recent book, The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature. Here, Wilkie-Stibbs provides an invaluable expla- nation of this ...
Heart and Science

Heart and Science

Wilkie Collins

Ed. E.R. Gregory. Toledo, Ohio: Friends of the U of Toledo Libraries, 1977. Critical Studies, General Studies, Letters Altick, R. D. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. Chicago: U of Chicago P, ...
Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction

Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction

William Baker

... the Attorney Nathaniel Cleveland Moak (1833- 1892) (item 356), the abolitionist Alexander Milton Ross (1832-1897) (item 424) and the Boston-based novelist and short story writer John Townsend Trowbridge ( 1 827- 1 9 1 6) (item 497).
It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock A Personal Biography

It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock A Personal Biography

Charlotte Chandler

... The Clouzot, Henri-Georges Cohn, Harry Colbert, Claudette Coleman, Herbert on Hitchcock's technical skills on Hitchcock's US. citizenship Collier, Constance Collins, Wilkie Columbia Compson, Betty Compton, Fay Connery, Sean Conrad,  ...
In good company: essays in honor of Robert Detweiler

In good company: essays in honor of Robert Detweiler

David Jasper

Interview in Christine Wilkie, Through the Narrow Gate: The Mythological Consciousness of Russell Hoban (London andToronto: Associated University Presses, 1989), p. 99. 5. Robert Detweiler, Breaking the Fall, p. 161 . 6. Christine Wilkie ...
The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian

The Non-verbal Type of Small Clauses in English and Lithuanian

Judita Giparaitauml;-

Jr. Colllins, Henry H., Harper Collins, Uk Staff Collins. 1995. Collins Cobuild English Dictionary. London: Harper Collins Publishers. —. 1996. Francis, Gill, Susan Hunston, Elisabeth Manning (eds.). 1996. Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns 1: ...
Missouri in 1861: The Civil War Letters of Franc B. Wilkie, ...

Missouri in 1861: The Civil War Letters of Franc B. Wilkie, ...

Franc Bangs Wilkie

Steele immediately dispatched a political friend to Magoffin to see him, and invite him to a conference at the house of Dr. (now Col.) James Hughes.26s Col. Magoffin agreed, and upon the night appointed met Col. [Egbert B.] Brown at Hughes' ...
The Lily Collins Handbook - Everything You Need to Know ...

The Lily Collins Handbook - Everything You Need to Know ...

Emily Smith

Collins was one of twenty women named by Maxim magazine as one of 'The Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars' in 2009. 13] This book is your ultimate resource for Lily Collins.
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

Billy Collins

‘Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world’ Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been.
Collins Internet-linked Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms

Collins Internet-linked Dictionary of Synonyms & Antonyms

Collins Uk

This handy paperback has been developed using Collins Word Web, an unparalleled and constantly updated 2.5-billion-word database of lexical data, so you can be sure you're up to speed with the very latest developments in language.
Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy

Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy

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This volume, a tribute to John J. Collins by his friends, colleagues, and students, includes essays on the wide range of interests that have occupied John Collins s distinguished career.

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