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Penguin Classics relaunch 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...

A gripping melodrama from Wilkie Collins When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret...

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The book titled The King of Inventors: Life of Wilkie Collins by the author Catherine Peters. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Collins' exhilarating story of two girls who fight for what should justly be theirs, in a typically labyrinthine plot Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a...

Penguin Classics relaunch The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin...

Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the bestselling creator of the vogue for "Sensation fiction" in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length...

A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess Narona...

"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me! Terror when her pitying eyes look at...

`This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Woman in White stands as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne moonlit night on a lonely road outside London, a young drawing master named Walter Hartright encounters a...

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Victorian literary culture lies a dark and...

Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2967 Twenty-four vintage Penguin and Pan paperbacks — three Hemingway titles, Tolstoy, Sartre, Austen, Wilkie Collins, D.H. Lawrence, Turgenev, Thomas Mann, Joseph Heller,...

Author: Robert Louis BrannanBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornell University Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles Charles Dickens's lesser-known but significant role as a theatrical...

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A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image...

Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's...

Author: A. Norman Jeffares & Martin GrayBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative reference work, Collins Dictionary Of Quotations, presents an expansive compilation of memorable...

Tis the season of goodwill, and Dickens extends the hand of friendship to a stranded stranger and his nephews for Christmas, with deadly consequences . . . Wilkie Collins is...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The only way to get rid of a temptation...

Author: R. W. LiscombeBinding: HardbackPublished: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: small chip on bottom corner of jacket, otherwise fineThis scholarly work chronicles the...

Jim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing - and reconstructing - a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face...

Author: Oliver GoldsmithBinding: HardbackPublished: CollinsCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a comprehensive collection of Oliver Goldsmith's enduring works, showcasing his mastery across various literary forms. The novel The...

Author: Collin WilcoxBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale - London, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing on dust jacketThis gripping mystery, Mankiller, by Collin Wilcox, plunges readers into...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards worn, with moderate marks/flecking; spine faded and dulled...

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Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad?...

Author: William WilkieBinding: PaperbackPublished: ANZEA, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWilliam Wilkie's Understanding Stress Breakdown presents a comprehensive analysis of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFrom the lyrical devotions of the thirteenth century to the bold modernism of the twentieth, Collins Albatross Book of Verse presents...

A carefully-selected collection of themed quotations to honour Shakespeare's legacy to the world on the 400th anniversary of the death of the most famous writer of all time. Find out...

Desperate Remedies was Hardy's first published work, and combines murder mystery with a powerful love story. Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'....

Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark of twentieth-century literary curation, Collins Albatross Book of Longer Poems presents a sweeping panorama of English...

Author: Collin WilcoxBinding: HardbackPublished: Random House , 1971Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this Lieutenant Hastings mystery, Wilcox weaves a tale of intrigue and suspense. The narrative...

This second edition of Collins Pocket Dictionary and Thesaurus ensures you'll always have the words you need at your fingertips. With matching dictionary and thesaurus entries on the same page,...

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