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«Porque, desde el principio de los tiempos, las mujeres santas que confiaban en Dios se honraban sometiéndose a sus esposos; Sara obedecía a Abraham, llamándole señor, y también sus hijas y las hijas de sus hijas». Con estas conocidas palabras mi tío, el reverendo Starkweather, puso fin a la ceremonia del matrimonio según el rito de la Iglesia anglicana. Luego, cerró su libro y me miró desde el altar, con una cariñosa expresión de interés en su ancha y colorada cara. Al mismo tiempo, mi tía, la señora Starkweather, de pie junto a mí, me dio unos suaves golpecitos en el hombro y me dijo:¿¡Ya estás casada, Valeria!¿Por dónde vagaban mis pensamientos? ¿En qué se entretenía mi mente? Estaba tan confusa que me era difícil determinarlo. Me estremecí y miré al que ya era mi marido. El pobre parecía tan aturdido como yo. Creo que a los dos se nos había pasado por la cabeza la misma idea: ¿Era posible que, a pesar de la oposición de su madre a nuestra boda, fuéramos ya marido y mujer? Mi tía zanjó la cuestión con un nuevo golpecito en mi hombro.

En alguna de mis novelas anteriores me propuse establecer la influencia ejercida por las circunstancias sobre el carácter. En la presente historia he invertido el proceso. Mi meta ha sido señalar aquí la influencia ejercida por el carácter sobre las circunstancias. La conducta seguida por una muchacha ante una emergencia insospechada constituye el cimiento sobre el que he levantado esta obra. Idéntico propósito es el que me ha guiado en el manejo de los otros personajes que aparecen en estas páginas. El curso seguido por su pensamiento y su acción en medio de las circunstancias que los rodean resulta, tal como habría ocurrido muy probablemente en la vida real, unas veces correcto, otras equivocado. Acertada o falsa su conducta, no dejan en ningún instante de regir la acción de aquellas partes del relato que les incumben a cada uno, frente a cualquier evento.

Esta es la historia de lo que puede resistir la paciencia de la Mujer y de lo que es capaz de lograr la tenacidad del Hombre. Si en el mecanismo de la Ley para investigar cada caso sospechoso y conducir cualquier proceso la influencia lubricante del oro desempeñase un papel secundario, los sucesos que vamos a narrar en estas páginas podrían haber reclamado la atención pública ante los Tribunales de Justicia. Pero la Ley, en algunos casos, está inevitablemente a las órdenes del que presenta la bolsa más repleta y por ello contamos la historia por primera vez en este lugar tal como debió haberla oído algún día el Juez; así va a escucharla ahora el Lector. Ninguna circunstancia importante, de principio a fin de esta declaración, ha de relatarse de oídas. Cuando el que escribe estas líneas introductorias (de nombre Walter Hartright) haya estado en relación más directa que otros con los sucesos de que habla él mismo lo contará. Cuando falle su conocimiento de los hechos dejará su lugar de narrador, y su tarea la continuarán, desde el punto en que él lo haya dejado, personas que pueden hablar de las circunstancias de cada suceso con tanta seguridad y evidencia como él mismo ha hablado en anteriores ocasiones. Por tanto esta historia la escribirá más de una pluma, tal como en los procesos por infracciones de la Ley el Tribunal escucha a más de un testigo, con el mismo objeto, en ambos casos, de presentar siempre la verdad de la manera más clara y directa; y para llegar a una reconstrucción completa de los hechos intervienen personas que tuvieron una estrecha relación con ellos en cada una de sus sucesivas fases, que relatan palabra por palabra, su propia experiencia. Oigamos primero a Walter Hartright, profesor de dibujo, de veintiocho años de edad.

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Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read in his face, returns from abroad.

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to a London painter, William Collins, and his wife, the family moved to Italy when Collins was twelve, living there and in France for two years, so that he learned Italian and French. He worked at first as a tea merchant. On publishing his first novel, Antonina, in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some Collins works appeared first in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. The two also collaborated on drama and fiction.

La jeune Anne Sylvester est la fille de l'épouse déchue d'un gentleman anglais. Anne est recueillie par la meilleure amie de sa mère quand celleci décède, et devient la préceptrice de sa fille, Blanche. Une amitié très forte lie les deux jeunes femmes. Mais alors que le bonheur semble promis à toutes deux, le destin s'acharne sur Anne: elle s'est éprise d'un jeune homme de bonne famille qui, pour la séduire lui promet le mariage alors qu'il ne pense qu'à une jeune et riche veuve... Ce roman plein d'humour et riche en rebondissements, est l'occasion pour Wilkie Collins de dénoncer les lois du mariage dans le RoyaumeUni en cette fin du XIXe siècle, qui n'accordent aucun droit aux femmes.

Le précurseur de la «detective novel», le «Gaboriau anglais», les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour qualifier le premier grand auteur de romans policiers anglais, des années avant Arthur Conan Doyle et son SHerlock Holmes. Après un mariage scandaleux, Lord Montbarry décède en voyage de noces dans un hôtel à Venise. Malgré les circonstances troubles ,une enquête diligentée par les assurances ne trouve rien de suspect... Mais alors, pourquoi la veuve Montbarry semble sombrer dans la folie, comme sous le poids d'un secret terrible ?...

THE WOMAN IN WHITE:- is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Published initially in a serial form under the title of All the Year Round, this novel was turned into book form in 1860. Highly appreciated for its plot and characterization, the novel brought Collins great name and fame. A decade later, he made it into a play. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this dramatic tale is told through multiple narrators. Widely considered as one of the earliest examples of crime fiction, this is the story of what a woman?s patience can endure, and what a man?s resolution can achieve.A long but very rewarding book, the Woman in White is densely plotted with a memorable cast of characters. The novel begins with Walter Hartright?s encounter with The Woman in White on a moonlit London road. Soon, Walter is embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his friend Count Fosco who is cunning, intelligent and extremely evil. He is also portrayed as a fascinating and dangerous villain, turning this novel as a blend of Gothic horror and psychological thriller. In short, it is a dark and chilling tale that readers will enjoy to the hilt.

Iris Henley, who hails from a respectable family but not one of nobility, is pressured by her father to wed Hugh Mountjoy, a well-respected and affluent man. Hugh is better suited to a lady of character, like Iris, but she can't help but be drawn to Lord Harry Norland, who has had a famous life. Lord Harry's close friend Hugh Mountjoy was murdered by a member of the Invincibles, and as retaliation, he turned himself into a marked man. Iris, his wife, received no financial assistance from her father, but she did have access to a little legacy from her mother, which she utilized to supplement her income. Lord Harry allowed himself to be seduced by a con artist and persuaded Iris to assist him in covering up for him when an investment he made with the majority of Iris' estate turned bad.There are a lot of regrets shown by many characters who are persuaded to take a terrible path but who finally rebel against their circumstances to make apologies, much like in real life, not everyone is all good or all bad. An excellent analysis of how even decent people may succumb to evil when they believe they have nowhere else to turn that is really well done.

This Collins' collection of 10 short stories was published in 1859. These stories are a mix of adventure, romance, suspense, mystery, etc. The Queen of Hearts', the school nickname of Jessie who is living with her elderly guardian. Griffith, a lawyer, lives with his two brothers, a clergyman and a doctor, in an deserted house in South Wales, called the Glen Tower. They each have their own specific personalities and peculiarities. This book is about a young woman Jessie Yelverton, 20 years of age who will soon succeed the legacy from her dead parents. Through a unusual set of circumstances, Jessie is forced to stay at one of her guardian's home for six weeks prior to her 21st birthday. The guardian's name is Griffith who lives with his two older brothers. Griffith's son, George is in love with Jessie and the three brothers arrange to delay her leaving for 10 days so that George can propose on his return from the Crimean War. This novel mirrors the affection of the time.

The Black Robe is an 1881 epistolary ( series of letters) novel by famous English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book relates the adversities of Lewis Romayne, and is also noted for a recognised anti-Catholic bias. In this amazing novel of relationships, psychological convolutions, and fraud, a priest comes between an responsive man and the young woman he loves. A high ranking Catholic priest plans to recover land knowing Church property. It analyses very patiently a intense friendship between two men, Lewis Romayne and Arthur Penrose, which in some ways transforms in its power the principal heterosexual relationship depicted in the work. The Black Robe is full of Victorian England's religious views and influences Collins' general commentary about domestic issues and the condition of women. Through the description of the Church's spiritual elite, its priests, and characters' comments, England's anti-Catholicism views are apparent. This book is a kind of enigma, though nobody is murdered. It is a combination of realist late-Victorian fiction with an advice of Gothic.

The Woman in White is a mysterious sensational novel, written by Wilkie Collins, published in 1860. A young art teacher Walter Hartright, meets an entirely white dressed mysterious woman, while he was returning, after meeting his mother and sister. Later, he came to know that she has escaped from an asylum. Walter joins a job in Limmeridge House to teach art to Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe Laura's step sister. Walter surprises that there is resemblance between Laura and the woman in white known as Anne Catherick. In spite of her love to Walter Laura marries to Sir Percival Glyde as she promised to her dying father. After six months of her marriage Clyde with Fosco conspirates against Laura to steal her inheritance. Story takes sensational turn Laura and Anne's places were exchanged. After persisting efforts of Walter and Marian the truth revealed, Laura's identity proved and Glyde and Fosco are killed and in the end Walter marries to Laura.

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Walter Hartright, professeur de dessin est engagé par Mr Fairlie, tuteur de demisoeurs, Marian et la jolie Lucy. Avant de quitter Londres, Walter rencontre une mystérieuse femme vêtue de blanc et qui se comporte de façon très étrange. Installé à son nouveau poste, il va vite comprendre que cette dame en blanc est liée à la famille Fairlie, et qu'il y a un mystère autour de Sir Percival, auquel Lucy est fiancée par une promesse à son père sur son lit de mort.

Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage s¿inscrit dans un projet de sauvegarde et de valorisation de bibliothèques et de fonds patrimoniaux anciens, rares ou oubliés, appartenant à la littérature des 19e et 20e siècles. Une collection de grands classiques, d¿écrits pour le théâtre, de poésie, mais aussi des livres d¿histoire, de philosophie ou d¿économie, de récits de voyage ou de livres pour la jeunesse à re-découvrir via les librairies en ligne ou à lire sur papier avec une mise en page étudiée pour favoriser le confort de lecture. Séduite par un bel athlète arrogant qui lui a promis le mariage. Anne Silvester va vite voir ses illusions déçues. De mensonges en tromperies. c'est bien vers le désespoir que s'achemine la jeune femme. rivale d'une veuve fortunée elle aussi sous l'emprise de la dictature frivole des hommes. Rien pourtant n'est jamais acquis et. de rebondissements en révélations. William Wilkie Collins dresse le tableau féroce d'un monde où les femmes, heureusement possèdent une inépuisable endurance face à l'obscurantisme des lois...

Wilkie Collins' novel The Evil Genius is first published in the year 1886. He highlights various social and family issues like class stigma, religion, remarriage, child custody, heritance right, divorce and infidelity in this novel. In the beginning of the story, Captain Roderick Westerfield faced a trial of diamond theft and insurance fraud. His wife left her daughter Sydeny with her aunt and moves to States with her son. After distressing childhood and youth Sydney Westerfield becomes the governess of pretty Kitty, daughter of Herbert and Catherine Linely. Story takes a turn when Sydney and Herbert fall in love, situations become crucial, Sydney leaves the house but due to illness of Kitty she comes back. Seeing the adversity Catherine leaves Herbert and asks for divorce. But things are not easy for her because society behaves differently to a divorced woman and her child. Meanwhile Captain Bennydeck meets Catherine feeling love for her, he wants to marry her but when he came to know about her divorce he withdraws his proposal. In the end Sydney left Herbert, Kitty unites Catherine and Herbert. Sydeny becomes Bennydeck's secretary and hopefully his life partner.

It is a classic Victorian era mystery thriller, written by author Wilkie Collins, published in 1875. The story is all about the mystery solving efforts of Valeria Woodville. Valeria Briton marries to Eustace Woodville facing the opposition of his family. While she is ready to go on her honeymoon trip, she discovers some secrets of her husband's past life. He doesn't want to discuss the things, they postpones their honeymoon. She came to know that he has been using a false name Woodville, his real surname is Macallan. He is a married man and accused of poisoning his first wife. Feeling ashamed he is hiding his true identity. Due to unproven verdict, he is a suspecting culprit, neither convicted nor cleared. Valeria trusts him so she decides to prove her husband's innocence. She sets out to find out the truth with the help from her true old friend and mother-in-law. Even though Eustace doesn't co-operate Valeria, she has incredible love, strength and determination.

My Lady's Money is a social parody about the robbery. A monetary certificate from the bank is taken from Lady Lydiard, and an unacceptable individual is thought of. To find the genuine criminal, Robert Moody, who is infatuated with Lady Lydiard's little girl Isabel who is taken care of by her, draws in a messy agent, Old Sharon. The clever mixes investigator fiction with social parody.

Armadale (1866) is an imaginative novel of 19th century by Wilkie Collins, dedicated to John Forster. This novel featuring a stunningly wicked female villain was regarded by T.S.Eliot as 'the best of his romances'. It consists of an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. This is the story of Alan Armadale. 'Armadale' is a long Victorian classic from the golden age of exciting fiction. It denotes a detailed interest in human psychology with dreams arising at many points in the book. The story comprises two generations of the Armadale families and the complicated plot combines several themes, including the supernatural, identity, murder and detection. The villain of this novel is Lydia Gwylt, a beautiful wicked governess, who is a adulterer, murderer, and drug addict, who creates a web of fraud in order to execute Allan's death. Character of Lydia makes this book so valuable. Armadale from beginning to end is a sensational labyrinth of uncertainties. As an appendix to this story Collins shares an anecdote with reference to The Dream that figures generally in the novel.

Hide and Seek is a novel written by Wilkie Collins. Written withinside the aftermath of Antonina his a hit debut, Hide and Seek reveals the writer honing the trademark experience of thriller and mental unease that might make him a family call across the world. Recognized as an critical Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins changed into a author with a present for considerate entertainment, testimonies written for a famous target target market that preserve to resonate with pupils and readers today. Mary Grice, a younger girl of wealth and social standing, will become pregnant after a quick affair with a person calling himself Arthur Carr. Banished from her home, she dies throughout childbirth withinside the care of a set of circus performers, who undertake the toddler as their own. Raised with the aid of using Martha Peckover, the spouse of a clown, younger Mary is exploited with the aid of using the circus proprietor following an coincidence with a horse, which leaves her deaf and mute. In order to store her, Martha brings Mary to a minister, who guarantees she is followed into a very good home. Taken in with the aid of using the Blyth family, Mary will become called Madonna for her splendor and grace, and shortly catches the attention of Zack Thorpe. As the tale unfolds, a thriller regarding Mary's father starts to take shape, with implications for her blossoming romance with Zack. Beyond its sensational plot, Hide and Seek is a masterpiece of Gothic suspense and thriller for pro readers of Victorian fiction and rookies alike.

The Fallen Leaves, Wilkie Collins's novel was published in 1879, devoted to Caroline Graves. The title 'Fallen Leaves' depicts the life of four women, who are lonely and friendless and have relationship with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart. Banished from his Utopian people group because of an unlawful issue with a more seasoned lady, Amelius comes to London to enrol in the assistance of John Farnaby, a man with a scandal history. He is quickly enraptured by his manager's niece and soon our legend ends up ensnared in his new family's dim history. It is representing two outlooks- merciless wealthy society o England and utopian community in America. The novel shows the theme that it's difficult to have a successful relationship between men and women, which are neither pious nor corrupt.