Wilkie: 657 books

En 1881, la jeune Emily Brown et sa meilleure amie Cecilia Wyvil sont pensionnaires dans une école pour jeunes filles. Peu avant les vacances estivales, Emily, apprend qu'une jeune professeur est renvoyée. Avant de partir, cette jeune femme confie à Emily, qui est orpheline, qu'elle a connu son père...

Scritto nel 1859, La donna in bianco uscì per la prima volta a puntate tra il 1859 e il 1860 sulla rivista All the Year Round di Charles Dickens, registrando un successo straordinario. Un'ereditiera bellissima e ingenua. Un promesso sposo che nasconde un segreto. Una sorella coraggiosa e fedele....

a Pierre de Lune est un diamant maudit, qui nuit à tous ses propriétaires successifs depuis son vol lors de la mise à sac d'un temple indien par l'armée anglaise. Offert à une jeune femme le jour de ses 18 ans, il disparaît au cours de la nuit suivante. Le...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The history of little more than the events of one year, out of the twenty-four years of my life.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being alone - and, as a means of getting through my idle time, I was quite content to be occupied in catching insects.

Extrait : Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira. Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être éclairci par les engins compliqués de la loi, et...

Extrait : Au fond d'une cour de la Cité de Londres, dans une petite rue escarpée, tortueuse, et glissante, qui réunissait Tower Street à la rive de la Tamise, se trouvait la maison de commerce de Wilding et Co., marchands de vins. L'extrémité de la rue par laquelle on aboutissait à la rivière...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLS THE STORY OF THE DINNER PARTY.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy - the year of the war between France and Germany.

When Collins is good he can be very good. Man and Wife, while showing a Victorian tendency toward over-dramatization, is one of his better novels. He shows what seems to be thorough knowledge of certain aspects of British law--in this case the contrast between Scotch and English marital law.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since.

The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first and finest in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing...