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An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth ... stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in W...

«The Woman in White» is a novel by the outstanding English writer Wilkie Collins (1824—1889), a master of intrigue, who successfully combines the mysterious, detective and romantic in his works. The events of the novel take place in the 19th century. In Great Britain. It is based on a fascinating...

Wilkie Collins (1824—1889) — English writer and playwright, one of the founders of the detective genre. «I Say No» is a typical English Victorian novel. This novel has everything — love and adventure, intrigue and detective story. Bright characters, a fascinating description of the feelings of th...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detectiv...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.' Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story o...