Author: Collins W.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521067957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. But at the very moment when various obstacles to the match are overcome, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel. What could have driven Alfred to do this?
Mad Monkton
Author: Collins W.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521067957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. But at the very moment when various obstacles to the match are overcome, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel. What could have driven Alfred to do this?
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521067957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. But at the very moment when various obstacles to the match are overcome, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel. What could have driven Alfred to do this?
Mad Monkton and Other Stories
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Wilkie Collins established a reputation for himself as a highly readable storyteller. This engaging collection spanning thirty years displays his characteristic powers with twelve short stories from a number of genres. He explores the uncanny peculiarities of everyday life, as well as its underside, offers haunting ghost stories, and makes an important contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective novel.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Wilkie Collins established a reputation for himself as a highly readable storyteller. This engaging collection spanning thirty years displays his characteristic powers with twelve short stories from a number of genres. He explores the uncanny peculiarities of everyday life, as well as its underside, offers haunting ghost stories, and makes an important contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective novel.
Mad Monkton & Other Stories
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Works
Author: Collins
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Tales
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783163739
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The aristocratic villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of classic Gothic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his criminal plots. While the prototypical castles were turned into modern medical institutions, his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the scientist’s knife. This study hence underlines the way in which Collins’s Gothic revisions increasingly tackled medical questions, using the medical terrain to capitalize on the readers’ fears. It also demonstrates how Wilkie Collins’s fiction reworks Gothic themes and presents them through the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and psychological discourses, from debates revolving around mental physiology to those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book’s structure is chronological covering a selection of texts in each chapter, with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of Collins’s texts such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale and some of his more neglected writings.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783163739
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The aristocratic villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of classic Gothic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his criminal plots. While the prototypical castles were turned into modern medical institutions, his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the scientist’s knife. This study hence underlines the way in which Collins’s Gothic revisions increasingly tackled medical questions, using the medical terrain to capitalize on the readers’ fears. It also demonstrates how Wilkie Collins’s fiction reworks Gothic themes and presents them through the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and psychological discourses, from debates revolving around mental physiology to those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book’s structure is chronological covering a selection of texts in each chapter, with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of Collins’s texts such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale and some of his more neglected writings.
A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A Plot in Private Life
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382304732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382304732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Catalogue of Books in English, French and German
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Department of English Prose Fiction which Belong to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
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