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The Moonstone is written by Wilkie Collins, an English novelist and author of first English detective novel “The Moonstone” who is also ed for his literary contributions of Armadale, No Name, and The Woman in White. Colonel Herncastle, while serving British army in India, steals a moonstone and brings to his England home. His family shun.. a3bc
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The Woman in White is considered to be the first mystery novel which has been ed for creation of sensation novels genre in the literary world. This novel is written by Wilkie Collins, an English novelist ed for his literary contributions such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Walter Hartright is hired a..
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Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White and No Name, and before The Moonstone. The story spans two generations of the Armadale families and the complex plot combines several of Collins's favourite themes, including the supernatural, ide..
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Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil was published in 1852 and dedicated to Charles Ward. It was Collins's second full-length work of fiction and first contemporary novel. In the introduction, he warns the reader that he has 'not hesitated to violate the conventiona..
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The Fallen Leaves of the title are 'The people who have drawn blanks in the lottery of life...the friendless and the lonely, the wounded and the lost'. The novel was not well received and a planned Second Series, showing an unconventional marriage failing because of outside pressures, was never written.The novel follows the fortunes of four w..
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Jezebel's Daughter is a sensational novel published in 1880 and dedicated to Alberto Caccia, Collins's Italian translator. Based on the 1858 play, The Red Vial, Collins's attempt to write for 'the masses' resulted in an unduly melodramatic tone. The novel, however, is notable for the way it handles the treatment of lunatics and the ment..
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Preface from the Book: The various papers of which the following collection is composed, were most of them written some years since, and were all originally published—with many more, which I have not thought it desirable to reprint—in 'Household Words,' and in the earlier volumes of 'All the Year Round.' They were fortunate enough to be received wi..
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Preface from the book: We hear a great deal of lamentation now-a-days, proceeding mostly from elderly people, on the decline of the Art of Conversation among us. Old ladies and gentlemen with vivid recollections of the charms of society fifty years ago, are constantly asking each other why the great talkers of their youthful days have found no succ..