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Alicja Burnham posiada dar „drugiego wzroku”. W swoich wizjach widzi jedynie biel, chłód i śmierć czyhającą na jej narzeczonego, Franka, który wyrusza na niebezpieczną ekspedycję polarną. Jednak to nie mróz jest największym zagrożeniem. Wśród załogi statku, uwięzionego w bezlitosnym uścisku Arktyki, znajduje się Ryszard Wardour – odrzucony wielbiciel Alicji. Gdy lód odcina ich od świata, a głód odbiera zmysły, zaciera się granica między człowieczeństwem a bestialstwem. C...

The heroes of the novel love each other since childhood, but evil fate separates them for many years. Having managed to keep their feelings pure, the lovers, having gone through all the trials, finally connect their lives.

The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love and wealth?

A novel about a young woman, Jessie Yelverton (also known as the Queen of Hearts), aged 20, who soon inherits an inheritance from her dead parents. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Jessie is forced to stay at her caregiver’s house for six weeks until her 21st birthday. The guardian’s name is Griffith, he is a lawyer and lives with his two older brothers.

Gerard Roiland, a typical Collins outsider, returns from college in Germany to take over his family estate at Trimley Dean and falls inappropriately in love with Kristel Toller, the daughter of one of his tenants. There is a mysterious deaf tenant who is also after Christelle.

A young woman gets married and suddenly finds herself in a situation where her loving and beloved husband turns out to be the bearer of a different surname, and a terrible, dark and discrediting secret is revealed in his past.

This book not only wants to thrill its readers with a chilling story, but also touches on social issues – in this case, the debate about whether there is a tendency to crime in a person. Blood is the genetic code, or can it be successfully counteracted by compassionate and virtuous parenting.

The mistress of the old estate – the Portgen Tower – dies, leaving a dying letter in which she makes a fatal confession. The discovery of this secret can have truly tragic consequences for all the inhabitants of the estate. But the maid, hoping to keep the peace of her masters, hides the letter in the old abandoned room of the castle – the Dead Room. Many years will pass before the Dead Room will part with its terrible secret.

There is literally no such thing as an evil genius, just a lot of depressed people who were not lucky enough to live in the 1800s. This is a historical family drama. A very abrupt end. It’s never quite clear who the evil genius is. But he certainly gave us a clear idea of just how devastating adultery can be.

Full of noble aspirations, a young graduate of the American Christian Community, Amelius Goldenhart, comes to his homeland in England. Here he falls in love with Regina, the niece of the wealthy merchant Farneby, but, having learned selfishness and cruelty, the hypocrisy of the world, he gives his heart to the destitute, lonely girl Sally – one of the representatives of the „fallen leaves” of bourgeois society.

The novel The Black Robe tells the story of a young rich heir who has fallen into the net of the Catholic Church. Only the devotion of his wife and love for his son allowed Luis Romain to throw off his heavy fetters and make the right decision.

A tragic incident leaves a girl from an aristocratic family without the right not only to an inheritance, but even to a family name. But the talented and energetic beauty is not going to surrender to the will of fate – she will throw all her ingenuity and desperate audacity into the cause of restoring justice. True, for this you have to give up a lot...

A novel about the fate of a blind girl who dreams of finding happiness. How many difficulties she has to overcome on the path of life! Deception of a loved one, betrayal of loved ones, sudden blindness – a series of tragic circumstances that haunt the heroine.

The novel „My Lady’s Money” continues the detective line of Collins’ work: this time it is about investigating the loss of a 500-pound banknote, during the search for which the honest name of poor Isabella, suspected of stealing money, was defamed.

This is a typical English Victorian novel. The action takes place in a women’s closed boarding house, the main characters are girls, one of them will turn out to be of aristocratic origin, the other will have a passionate affair with an unrecognized artist.. in a word, everything we expect from Victorian novels is passion, moralizing, trials, censure of vices and exaltation of virtues.

The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritz’s father is opposed to his son’s marriage and believes that Mina and her mother encroached on the family’s wealth. Suddenly, the groom’s father, Mr. Koehler, falls ill, and Madame de Fontaine gives the sick man a miraculous medicine. She cures him of a fatal illness. But this medicine turns out to be an antidote. Who poisoned Herr Koehler?

These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end that’s what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Collins, including the general theme of the return of a character presumed dead. Great for readers of Victorian fiction.

The novel is set in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the imperfection of the marriage legislation of England, Ireland and Scotland and the presence of conflicting articles in it, a woman becomes a victim of her scoundrel husband, and then her daughter falls into the same situation many years later. But fate, although cruel, is fair – with the help of friends, the girl manages to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, save her life and find her happiness.

This is a very hilarious story by Wilkie Collins. This book reads like sensational journalism from the 1800s or an old radio show. The characters are fun and cute, and the story moves quickly and leaves you with a smile on your face.

Mrs. Galileo is engaged in various studies and spends much more than she can afford. Suddenly, Mrs. Galileo receives custody of her niece Carmina, in her plans to never let the guardianship out of her hands. The doctor’s secret experiments in vivisection lead to the fact that a young girl becomes infected with a terrible virus.

Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of horses, he meets a deaf-mute girl named Mary.

The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?

„When Night Falls” is a complex novel. Six fascinating stories, full of mystery and tension, are collected by the author into a single picture, worthy of taking its place among the most exquisite works of classic English literature. The stories consist of formal introductions to each story, including character sketches of the alleged narrators, a fictional portrait painter taking a break from sore eyes, and diary entries of the artist’s wife.

The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters of the novel, and it is up to the readers to decide which characters to side with. A cry of passion or the silent restraint of love – this is how the heroes of the novel behave.

This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank sees work life as a problem, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed in medicine, portraiture, caricature, and even forgery. Disillusioned with life, he despaired of finding something to do until he met Alicia Dulcifer.

A young aristocrat falls in love with a shopkeeper’s daughter and is forced to hide his marriage to her from his relatives because of the existing class inequality. The hero of the novel is subjected to countless trials, which lead some of the characters to a tragic end.

Anne Silvester i Blanche Lundie to serdeczne przyjaciółki, które wychowywały się wspólnie. W pewne sierpniowe popołudnie przed obiema z nich otwiera się perspektywa małżeństwa, ale w zupełnie różnych okolicznościach. Blanche przyjmuje oświadczyny ukochanego Arnolda Brinkwortha, natomiast Anne, aby uniknąć pohańbienia, zmuszona jest zaaranżować potajemny ślub w szkockiej gospodzie z Geoffreyem Delamaynem, który wcześniej obiecał jej małżeństwo. Geoffrey wykorzystuje niepomyśln...

„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. It is about a house th...

Two foundlings from the London Educational Home received the same name, which over the years led to disastrous consequences. Two lawyers are looking for the missing heir, in order to correct the injustice. Rumors lead them from the moldy wineries of the City of London to the Mediterranean sun through the winter Swiss Alps. Lies and deceit would prevail if not the courage of a young woman

This story is about two students who go on a journey to find a way to completely relax. Along the way, they encounter some problems and humorous incidents. The reader can distinguish the voice of Dickens and Collins in the narration. Especially memorable is the sensational story of Collins and Dickens’s wonderful story about the wedding chamber. This is just one of many texts that are not widely used, but they are definitely worth reading.

A diamond is stolen from the English country estate of Lady Verinder and the renowned Sergeant Cuff is brought in from London to help solve the case. The diamond, said to bring bad luck to its owner because it was stolen from a temple in India, was given to Lady Verinder’s daughter, Rachel, on her 18th birthday. It was bequeathed to Rachel from her uncle (who stole it when he was a young soldier) on his death. The story unfolds through several narrators, all of whom know a ...

Bez wyjścia to dziełko dwóch pisarzy i przyjaciół: Charlesa Dickensa oraz Wilkie Collinsa. Jest to opowieść o przyjaźni, miłości, lojalności, ale też o zdradzie, chciwości i podłości.Historia rozpoczyna się 30 listopada 1835 roku. Młoda kobieta usiłuje wyciągnąć od pracownicy przytułku dla dzieci informacje o pewnym oddanym tam chłopcu. Udaje jej się to i po kilku latach korzysta ze zdobytej wiedzy. Wydaje się, że nic nie zakłóci już szczęścia połączonych na nowo matki i...

L’abîme est une piece de théâtre écrite des deux géants de la littérature: Charles Dickens et Wilkie Collins. L’histoire combine le secret de Collin avec la satire de Dickens, ce qui la rend tres intéressante. L’histoire commence avec le personnage principal, Walter Wilding, pleurant la mort de sa mere et réorganisant son foyer. Cependant, lors de ces tristes événements, il apprend des nouvelles surprenantes de son passé, ce qui entraîne une chaîne d’événements assez comple...

Kiedy z domu lady Lydiard znika banknot o wysokim nominale, podejrzenie pada na Isabel – jej przybraną córkę. Jednak ani jaśnie pani ani jej zarządca Moody nie wierzą w winę prostolinijnej i uczciwej dziewczyny. Niezrażony bezsilnością policji i pojawieniem się potężnego rywala do ręki Isabel, beznadziejnie zakochany Moody, postanawia za wszelką cenę udowodnić jej niewinność.

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 pozbawiony wsparcia bliskich, jednocześnie zagr...

Jedna z pierwszych powieści kryminalno-sensacyjnych, powszechnie traktowana jako jedna z najpiękniejszych tego gatunku!Mistrzowski przykład fikcji detektywistycznej z bohaterem, Walterem Hartrightem, stosującym wiele technik śledczych późniejszych prywatnych detektywów. Użycie wielowątkowych relacji zawdzięczamy prawniczemu wykształceniu Collinsa, który sam wskazuje we wstępie do książki: „Historia tu przedstawiona będzie opowiedziana przez więcej niż jedno pióro, jak histori...

Often considered one of the first mystery novels, The Woman In White follows protagonist Walter Hartright, an art teacher, as he has a mysterious late night encounter on a London street with a lost woman, dressed all in white, who he later finds out had escaped from an asylum. The figure of this woman and the words they exchanged during their meeting come to haunt Walter, even as he accepts a job at Limmeridge House outside of London to instruct heiress Laura Farlie in art....

A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the ’Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story,– the Emperor Honorius, and Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary importance. Among the historical incidents used are the arrival of the Goths at the gates of Rome, the Famine, the last efforts of the besieged, the Treaty of Peace, the introdu...

 Wilkie Collins, najbardziej uwielbiany autor swoich czasów, prekursor powieści detektywistycznej, w fascynującej mieszance tajemnicy i grozy. Nawiedzony hotel  to inteligentne połączenie fabuły typowej dla powieści detektywistycznej z opowieścią o duchach. Rzecz dzieje się w Wenecji, która jawi się jako miasto ponurych kanałów, cieni i śmierci. Zagadkowa kobieta staje się przyczyną zerwania zaręczyn Agnieszki Lockwood z jej dalekim kuzynem, lordem Monberrym,  a następnie ...