Wilkie Collins

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In preparing to compose a fiction founded on history, the writer of these pages thought it no necessary requisite of such a work that the principal characters appearing in it should be drawn from the historical personages of the period. On the contrary, he...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. AT the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. This story first appeared in Charles Dickens' magazine, "e;Household Words, "e; volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's financial...

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...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on land- the silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea....