Wilkie: 657 books

Dundee. To football fans, it has been the subject of great curiosity for as long as the game has been played professionally. How does a relatively small and economically challenged city manage to sustain two senior clubs which, perversely, play across the road from one another? And why has this rivalry...

This story first appeared in Charles Dickens' magazine, “Household Words, ” volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's financial accounts.

The star Argentiniean striker Claudio Caniggia has described Dundee as 'a football town' and, as the favoured partner of arguably the world's greatest-ever player Diego Maradona, he should know. But why should he care? What was this man doing, plying his trade in Dundee? Dundee Football Club...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 4 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne Daniel Deronda - George Eliot *King Lear *- William Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The...

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new...

Contents The Two Drovers  By Sir Walter Scott  Mr. Deuceace  By W. M. Thackeray  The Brothers  Edward Bulmer Lytton  Doctor Manette's Manuscript  By Charles Dickens  The Caldron of Oil  By Wilkie Collins  The Burial of the Tithe  By Samuel...

El cuerpo del delito es una recopilación de trece magníficos relatos policiacos clásicos que alterna textos consagrados con otros menos conocidos, todos ellos perfectamente representativos de las variantes de la literatura policiaca, teniendo siempre presente la máxima exigencia de calidad literaria,...

Mrs.Marsh spends her days caring for her home and avoiding her neighbors whenever possible. A home invasion by a pompous goop and a monstrous flaming rat creature will threaten her peaceful retirement plans.

Happy endings come in many guises. A collection of classic love stories that end on a high note: fun and spirited, with overtones that will linger awhile. The flight includes: The Singing Lesson, by Katherine Mansfield Akin to Love, by L.M. Montgomery Mr. Lismore and the Widow,...

Contents ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE F. Anstey THE TROUBLES OF A TRIPLET W. Beatty-Kingston SLIGHTLY DEAF Bracebridge Hemming THE LADY FREEMASON H. T. Craven WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT! F. B. Harrison THE FATAL LEGS Walter Browne THE CALIPH'S JESTER From...

Short novel. According to Wikipedia: "William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name."

Wilkie Collins was an extremely popular author of the Victorian era. Aside from his thirty novels, Collins penned a great amount of short stories across a number of genres. First published in 1856, 'The Diary of Anne Rodway' is one of his best-remembered tales Many of the Gothic romance and horror...

Editedand with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?’ 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...

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Richard G. Lewis. The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is...