Wir haben verschiedene Bücher von Hunderten namhafter Autoren für Sie auf Lager. Entdecke eine große Auswahl an Büchern aus der Kategorie Literatur & Fiktion.
Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Vor 2 Tagen · He hated backed-in sentences, sentences like this one: “The creator of the murder-mystery genre, Wilkie Collins wrote The Moonstone in 1868.” If I ever used such a bad apposition, I would ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Dive into Wilkie Collins' "The Dream-Woman," a tale of eerie suspense where the line between dreams and reality blurs, and every shadow holds a secret waiting to be unraveled. In the dead of...
- 51 Min.
- 1264
- neuralsurfer
Vor 5 Tagen · William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in London.
Vor 2 Tagen · Both Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone and Charles Dickens in his unfinished work The Mystery of Edwin Drood used the real case in the village of Road, Wiltshire, now Rode, Somerset, as a starting point in their works. The author informs readers of the future lives of the major characters in the case. While it is interesting, the writing is not flawless. I dislike the "hidden endnotes" employed ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins is a gripping blend of mystery and supernatural elements, set against the backdrop of Venice. The story begins with the tumultuous relationship between Lord Montbarry and the enigmatic Countess Narona, who has recently jilted Montbarry's former fiancée, Agnes Lockwood.
Vor 4 Tagen · Great Expectations incorporates elements of the new genre of crime fiction, which Dickens had already used in Oliver Twist (1837), and which was being developed by his friends Wilkie Collins and William Harrison Ainsworth.
Vor 3 Tagen · Exploring the city as a theatrical site was something of a nineteenth-century pastime. Walt Whitman kept a notebook recording his observations of New York street scenes. Charles Dickens used to get Wilkie Collins to accompany him around London on such expeditions. In London in 1851, de Serville records, Standish had “toured the slums of St ...
