The Moonstone
The Moonstone
The Moonstone is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. Its publication was started on 4 January 1868 and was completed on 8 August 1868.
Author
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) is represented here by 21 public-domain titles, including A Fair Penitent, A Rogue's Life, and Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here.
No Name
No Name
No Name was originally serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round before book publication. No Name is the second of his four "great novels", released after The Woman in White and before Armadale and The Moonstone.
Man and Wife
Man and Wife
Man and Wife is Wilkie Collins's ninth published novel, first published in 1870. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends to detract from their qualities as fiction.
The Black Robe
The Black Robe
The Black Robe, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens.
The Law and the Lady
The Law and the Lady
The Law and the Lady is not quite as sensational in style as The Moonstone and The Woman in White.
Armadale
Armadale
Armadale is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White and No Name, and before The Moonstone.
The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts
The queen of hearts is a playing card in the standard 52-card deck.
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome was completed and, after the first two publishers refused to accept it, it was issued by Richard Bentley as a three-volume book early in 1850. Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome is the only example of Collins writing a classical romance novel; and it was met, as Collins later recalled, "with such a chorus of praise as has never been sung over me since".
Poor Miss Finch
Poor Miss Finch
Poor Miss Finch is a novel by Wilkie Collins published on 26 January 1872 about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers.
Blind Love
Blind Love
Blind Love was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant. Collins's novel had already begun serialization in The Illustrated London News, even though the author had not yet completed it.
The Fallen Leaves
The Fallen Leaves
The Fallen Leaves," a 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins, explores the lives of four women, or "fallen leaves," linked by their relationships with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart, and secrets from their pasts, focusing on the complexities of relationships and social issues of the time.