Лунный камень – огромный желтый алмаз – некогда украшавший чело бога Луны в одном из священных индийских храмов, подарен на восемнадцатилетие Рэчел Вериндер. Но в ту же ночь камень был украден. Для расследования приглашен лучший сыщик Англии – сержант Кафф. Эксклюзивная классика АСТ, 2025 год
Идеи и сюжетные ходы Уилки Коллинза из романа «Лунный камень» использовали Конан Дойл, Гилберт Честертон, Агата Кристи, многое стало классикой для детективного жанра. Индуистский бог Вишну повелел, чтобы «Лунный камень охранялся тремя жрецами день и ночь, до скончания века» и предсказал несчастье тому, кто осмелится им завладеть. Захватывающее продолжение истории — в самом первом и…
Уилки Коллинз — классик английской литературы XIX века, один из самых известных писателей Викторианской эпохи. Романы «Женщина в белом» и «Лунный камень», выходившие в журнале Чарльза Диккенса «Круглый год», в буквальном смысле слова свели с ума всю Европу. Мастер интриги и увлекательного сюжета, Уилки Коллинз покорял своих читателей искусным сочетанием двух популярных жанров: мелодрамы и…
Уильям Уилки Коллинз — классик английской литературы XIX века, вошедший в историю как родоначальник современной детективной литературы. Залогом успеха произведений Коллинза, из-под пера которого вышло двадцать три романа и четыре сборника рассказов и повестей, стало сочетание различных жанров: писатель умело объединял в своих книгах мелодраму, детектив и нравоописательный роман, щедро приправляя их элементами готического романа….
Роман «Отель с привидениями» – это мастерское сочетание детектива и истории о привидениях. Действие разворачивается в Венеции – городе темных каналов, пустынных мостов и таинственных смертей. Старинное палаццо превратили в фешенебельный отель, но он продолжает хранить свои мрачные секреты, сводя с ума постояльцев, заставляя их задаваться вопросом, кто они – орудия рока или просто сумасшедшие?…
Уилки Коллинз — английский писатель, снискавший широкую популярность благодаря своим знаменитым книгам «Лунный камень» и «Женщина в белом». Роман «Мой ответ — нет» впервые выходит на русском языке. Читателя ждет увлекательное путешествие в мир старой доброй Англии, — в этой истории есть место и любви, и приключениям, и детективной интриге. . Впервые на русском !…
Жизнь начинающего художника Уолтера Хартрайта, получившего в уединенном имении необременительную должность учителя рисования, навеки изменилась после встречи с таинственной молодой незнакомкой, одетой в белое… Кто она? Почему так отчаянно проклинает какого-то баронета? Что за всадники скачут по ее следу? И наконец, почему она похожа на одну из учениц Уолтера, словно сестра-близнец? Решив выяснить это, художник,…
Уильям Уилки Коллинз — классик английской литературы XIX века, вошедший в историю как родоначальник современной детективной литературы. Залогом успеха произведений Коллинза, из-под пера которого вышло двадцать три романа и четыре сборника рассказов и повестей, стало сочетание различных жанров: писатель умело объединял в своих книгах мелодраму, детектив и нравоописательный роман, щед ро приправляя их элементами готического…
Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins’ Jezebel’s Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, revolves around Mrs. Fontaine, a sinister widow who uses her dead husband’s poisons and antidotes to control the futures of those around her. Filled…
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This is the dtory about The girl named Mary – they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael – was a mystery. All they did know about her identity was that she’d lost her…
Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham is haunted by the memory of Richard Wardour, and his mistaken belief that they will one day marry. With her gift of ‘Second Sight’, Clara foresees terrible tragedy ahead and is racked by guilt. Allied to two different ships, the…
In this novel William Wilkie Collins explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skilful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn’t seem to adhere to this plan,…
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. He…
William Willde Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Set against the background of the French Revolution, Sister Rose concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who contracts an unhappy marriage to the aristocratic Charles Danville; and Danville’s land-steward, Lomaque, who is indebted to Trudaine’s father. Trudaine fulfils a deathbed promise to his…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. My Lady’s Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are a lot of possible suspects she must sort through. One of them — an honest girl Isabella. The Lazy Tour of…
Magdalen Vanstone and Norah — her sister learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the discovery that their parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from home, the two young women are left to…
The Dead Secret was Collinss first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and ingenious, Rosamonds determined detective work uncovers a shocking truth. Original RUGRAM,…
The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. In this novel of relationships, psychological contortion, and deceit, a priest comes between an impressionable man and the young woman he loves. Collins is best known for originating the genre of the “sensation novel” that is the precursor of the modern…
Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. My Lady’s Money, published in 1879, is a novel that centers around a rich woman who is a victim of theft. There are…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Dead Secret was Collinss first full-length puzzle-romance. Moments from death, Mrs Treverton tells a secret, never to be passed to her husband. Years later, when her daughter Rosamond returns with her husband, she is warned not to enter the Myrtle Room. Strong-minded and…
In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, (Walter Wilding), with disastrous consequences in adulthood. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company — the…
Wilkie Collins was one of the leading English authors of the Victorian era. Collins was a prolific author and he is credited for writing the first modern detective novel in English literature. The novel follows the fortunes of four women, all in one way or another ‘fallen leaves’, who are linked by their relationships with…
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare. Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, Walter Wilding. After the death of one — now a proprietor of a wine merchant’s company…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Armadale is a novel by Collins, first published in 1864-66. 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 he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist,…
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 he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flamed-hair temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husbandpoisoner.This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society. Original RUGRAM, 2018…
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In Basil’s secret and unconsummated marriage to the linendraper’s sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. Original RUGRAM,…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Hide and Seek is the story about the girl named Mary — they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael. All they did know about her identity was that shed lost her hearing in an…
In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens’ periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these wellloved men of letters. Through their fi ctional counterparts, the…
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profi table marriage. What hides her past? She lived in a shelter, dragged on a miserable existence and in a moment of desperation she appropriated other people’s documents, another’s life story. But…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canadas drier climes in order to recover his…
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Two Destinies explores the powers of telepathy while telling a skillful tale that interweaves suspense with the familiar ingredients of Victorian melodrama. Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at…
William Willcie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. This Collins’ work were classified at the time as «sensation novel», a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. John Jago’s Ghost, is a novella based on the Boorn Brothers murder case. . Top100 Classic Books RUGRAM, 2018 год
