Wilkie Collins audiobooks
The Woman in White
by Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White is considered to be the first mystery novel written by Wilkie Collins. This novel was a trendsetter in the style of narration as Collins used many characters to narrate the story and this style was followed my many authors like Bram Stoker. Anne, an illegitimate child has been put to asylum by her father's family members to keep..
The Moonstone
by Wilkie CollinsConsidered as the prequel of English mystery novels, The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins narrates the story of a stolen diamond which is being chased by many criminals years of after it was missing. Rachel Verinder, a young girl recieves a diamond necklace as her birthday gift based on a will from his uncle Colonel Herncastle, who served in Bri..
Armadale
by Wilkie CollinsArmadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story co..
Basil
by Wilkie CollinsBasil (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 persu..
Jezebel's Daughter
by Wilkie CollinsJezebel's Daughter is a sensation novel published in 1880 and dedicated to Alberto Caccia, Collins's Italian translator. Based on the 1858 play, The Red Vial, Collins's attempt to write for 'the masses' resulted in an unduly melodramatic tone. The novel, however, is notable for the way it handles the treatment of lunatics and the mental..
Hide and Seek
by Wilkie CollinsHide and Seek was Wilkie Collins' third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel's characters. Suspense is created from the reader's uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how...
Evil Genius
by Wilkie CollinsEvil Genius is a novel by Wilkie Collins published in 1886, dedicated to William Holman Hunt, treating the related themes of divorce and child-custody. The story was ahead of its time in presenting both the wife and the mistress of an adulterous husband in a sympathetic light and concentrating the reader's attention on the plight of the child invol..
Two Destinies
by Wilkie CollinsWilkie Collins's novel was published in 1876 and dedicated to Charles Reade. Collins explores the themes of 'destined spirits' and supernatural visions. He acknowledges taking the second idea from a case reported in Robert Dale Owen's Footfalls on the Boundary of another World. This describes how a ship's captain is convinced to change course af..