Wilkie Collins
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"A young woman falls in love with a mysterious drifter. She soon becomes pregnant and is banished by her aristocratic family. Desperate and alone, she gives birth to a daughter and dies in excruciating pain. Discovered by a traveling circus, the baby is taken in by the wife of a clown."--Cover page 4.
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Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood to marry the Countess Narona. The couple end a continental tour in Venice where they live reclusively in a large, decaying palace. They are accompanied by Baron Rivar, brother of the Countess, and by Ferrari, their courier. Agnes learns from Montbarry's brother, Henry Westwick, that Montbarry, whose life was insured for £10,000 in favour of his wife, has died of bronchitis. The courier has...
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Classics brings together all five Christmas books that Charles Dickens wrote between 1843 and 1848. In addition to the title tale--one of Dickenss best-known works and a beloved classic of nineteenth century literature--it includes "The Chimes," "A Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man"--stories that Dickens hoped would, as he wrote, "awaken some loving an forebearing thoughts" in...
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At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, unaware that it was plundered from a sacred Indian shrine fifty years earlier. When the jewel goes missing later that night, suspicions are raised and accusations fly in all directions. Sifting through divergent accounts of what happened, the indomitable Sergeant Cuff must find the Moonstone and the truth about...
7) Basil
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"Basil, potomek arystokratycznego rodu i aspirujący pisarz, zakochuje się w dziewczynie - smagłej, ciemnookiej piękności - przypadkowo spotkanej w omnibusie. Nie mogąc liczyć na aprobatę ojca dla małżeństwa z córką kupca, poślubia dziewczynę w tajemnicy. Jednocześnie akceptuje pewien dziwaczny warunek postawiony przez teścia. Basil ryzykuje wszystko dla miłości, nie podejrzewając zdrady. Gdy nadchodzi krytyczny moment młodzieniec...
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Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
11) The moonstone
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A stolen Hindu diamond, the Moonstone, works its curse after being stolen from it's shrine. Just before Rachel's birthday, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her to wear. The jewel goes missing and Rachel believes that Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue...
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"In 1851, artist Walter Hartright arrives in Limmeridge, England to teach drawing to wealthy Laura Fairlie. As he walks to the Fairlie estate, he encounters a strange young woman dressed in white, who disappears when a carriage drives up. The passenger, Count Alesandro Fosco, asks Walter if he has passed a woman, explaining that she has escaped from a private asylum, but Walter says nothing. At the house, Walter is greeted by Laura's cousin, Marian...
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Artist Walter Hartright arrives at Limmeridge House to instruct wealthy half-sisters Marian and Laura Fairlie. Their peaceful lives are marred by a strange woman dressed in white, who brings disturbing warnings to the family. When Laura announces her engagement to the dashing Sir Percival Glyde, it seems the darkness haunting them is lifting. But new dangers lurk closer than ever, and the only hope for averting disaster lies with the secret held by...
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"The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists...
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Today the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus, but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's French detective Dupin, the hero of "The murders in the Rue Morgue," anticipated Holmes's deductive reasoning by more than forty years with his "tales of ratiocination." In "A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes's adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur...