Wilkie Collins Books In Order
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Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was | (1840) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome | (1850) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twin Sisters | (1851) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Basil | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nine O' Clock | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino Potts | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hide and Seek | (1854) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mad Monkton And Other Stories | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Mask & Other Stories | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Secret | (1856) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Rogue's Life | (1856) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter | (1856) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Diary of Anne Rodway | (1856) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Cottage | (1857) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fair Penitent | (1857) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Hand | (1857) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Family Secret | (1857) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Biter Bit | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fauntleroy | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Plot in Private Life, and Other Tales | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blow Up with the Brig | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Parson's Scruple | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Woman in White | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fatal Cradle | (1861) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Name | (1862) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Armadale | (1866) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moonstone | (1868) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Man and Wife | (1870) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Poor Miss Finch | (1872) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Magdalen | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Fortune | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Law and the Lady | (1875) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman | (1875) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Two Destinies | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Captain and the Nymph | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Percy and the Prophet | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Bertha and the Yankee | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister | (1878) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fallen Leaves | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Spectacles | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Killed Zebedee? | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jezebel's Daughter | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Robe | (1881) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Cosway and the Landlady | (1881) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Morris and the Stranger | (1881) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fye! Fye! or the Fair Physician | (1882) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart and Science | (1883) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Lismore And The Widow | (1883) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Say No | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Medhurst and the Princess | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poetry Did It | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Evil Genius | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Dulane and My Lord | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Guilty River | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farmer Fairweather | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Sad and Brave Life | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Legacy of Cain | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blind Love | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Mina and the Groom | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Jasper's Secret | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Last Stage Coachman | (1843) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Wray's Cash Box | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Terribly Strange Bed | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage | (1853) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dream Woman | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After Dark | (1856) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A House to Let | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunted House | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Queen of Hearts | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cauldron of Oil | (1861) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Thoroughfare | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Alive | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss or Mrs.? | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Jago's Ghost | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunted Hotel | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Lady's Money | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Killed Zebedee? | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Gwilt | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Mask | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sights A-Foot | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black and White | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
The Frozen Deep and Other Tales | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sensation Stories | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Novels | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Short Stories Of Wilkie Collins | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Rambles Beyond Railways | (1851) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A. | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Miscellanies | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Charles Dickens Short Stories/Novellas
The Black Veil | (1836) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Holly Tree Inn | (1850) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A House to Let | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunted House | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Marigold | (1866) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic Fishbone | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
George Silverman's Explanation | (1868) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Elizabeth Gaskell Short Stories/Novellas
Sexton's Hero | (1847) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moorland Cottage | (1850) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lizzie Leigh | (1850) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Harrison's Confessions | (1851) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Disappearances | (1851) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bessy's Troubles at Home | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shah's English Gardener | (1852) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Accursed Race | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Libbie Marsh's Three Eras | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Squire's Story | (1855) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poor Clare | (1856) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Manchester Marriage | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A House to Let | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Right at Last | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doom of the Griffiths | (1858) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Half-Brothers | (1859) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cousin Phyllis | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
French Life | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Weeks at Heppenheim | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Morton Hall | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crooked Branch | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Heart of John Middleton | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My French Master | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Well of Pen Morfa | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bran | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scholar's Story | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Company Manners | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
World's Great Mystery Stories | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
65 Great Tales Of Horror | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
English Country House Murders | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thrillers | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
God's Little Acre: Clerical Tales of the Countryside | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories to Get You Through the Night | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Short Stories: After Dark Classics | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Books to Die For | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Favorite Love Stories | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Greatest Books of All Time #4 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Further Crossovers of Sherlock Holmes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins was born in London, England on January 8, 1824 the son of a respected landscape painter, and was named after David Wilkie, his painter godfather. His family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but took him to Italy and France with them between 1836 and 1838.
Coming back to England, he went to Cole’s boarding school, and finished his education in the year 1841, and after he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand.
His first short story, called “The Last Stage Coachman”, was published in Illuminated Magazine in August of 1843.
In the year 1846, he became a law student at Lincoln’s Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851 however he would never practice law. In 1848, one year after his dad died, that he published “The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A.” to good reviews.
By this time, he had turned to writing a number of short fiction pieces that appeared in Charles Dickens’ periodicals, Household Words and later, All the Year Round. His first novel, called “Iolani”, which was set in ancient Tahiti and involving sacrifice and sorcery, though possibly written as early on as 1844, was later rejected by publishers. It was only rediscovered and published for the very first time in the year 1999.
Developing at once the novel of sensation and detective fiction, his exotic and gripping tales, which often included sinister locales, strong heroines, charlatans, and psychological or physical afflictions, quickly became popular with readers. His first foray into crime fiction was “Basil”, which is a Gothic story of bigamy, doppelgangers, and some hidden family secrets.
Wilkie was a close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March of 1851 until Dickens died in June of 1870. Wilkie was one of the best loved, best known, and, for a period, best paid of the Victorian fiction writer. However after he died, his reputation started declining while Dickens’ bloomed.
Wilkie’s creative high point was the 1860s, and was during this time that he achieved critical acclaim and fame, with four of his novels: “The Woman in White”, “Armadale”, “No Name”, and “The Moonstone”.
He’s being given more popular and critical attention than he’s ever gotten, with most of his work in print, and are all in e-text. He gets studied widely, with new television, film, and radio versions of a few of his books being made, and all of his letters have been published.
Movies made of his work includes: “The Moonstone”, “The Twin Pawns”, “Crimes at the Dark House”, “The Woman in White”, “She Loves and Lies”, and “Tangled Lives”.
Wilkie, who was unafraid to question Victorian social mores, never married however did keep two families. He lived both with Caroline Graves, whom he met in a midnight encounter like the one described in “The Woman in White”, as well as with Martha Rudd.
Later in life, he became addicted to opium, starting in 1870 until he died his novels became concerned with social issues, and are thought inferior to his earlier work.
He died on September 23, 1889 at the age of sixty-five.
“The Woman in White” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1859. This novel famously opens up with Walter Hartright’s spooky encounter on a moonlit road in London. Engaged as a drawing master to Laura Fairlie, he becomes caught up in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and Count Fosco, his ‘charming’ friend and who has a taste for poison, vanilla bonbons, and white mice.
Hunting down questions of insanity and identity along the corridors and paths of English country houses and a madhouse, this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre which combined psychological realism with Gothic horror.
This is a novel that is well drawn with characters to despise and characters to root for, a twisting plot which rolls up seamlessly, and was narrated seamlessly by multiple perspectives.
“No Name” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1862. Mr. Vanstone’s daughters are Nobody’s kids.
Magdalen Vanstone along with her sister Norah, learn the real meaning of social stigma in Victorian England right after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths left them orphans, weren’t married when they were born. They are brutally ousted from Combe-Raven (the country estate that has been their home since childhood) and disinherited by law. These two young women are just left to fend for themselves.
As Norah the submissive of the two, follows a path of hardship and duty as a governess, her rebellious and high-spirited little sister made other choices. Determined to regain her rightful inheritance by whatever means necessary, Magdalen uses her dramatic talent and unconventional beauty in recklessly chasing her revenge. Aided in this by an audacious swindler, named Captain Wragge, she braves a sequence of trials that leads up to one climactic trial. Can she actually trade herself in marriage to a man that she loathes?
“The Moonstone” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1868. Wilkie Collins’ captivating story of theft, romance, and murder inspired a majorly popular genre: the detective mystery.
Hinging on the theft of one enormous diamond that was originally stolen from some Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, a mysterious band of Indian jugglers, a hilarious house steward named Gabriel Betteridge, and a lovesick housemaid.
“The Law and the Lady” is a stand alone novel that was released in the year 1873. Three years prior, her husband stood accused of murdering somebody. And the verdict came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury didn’t have enough to convict him, yet not quite enough to comfortably exonerate him either.
Eustace couldn’t bear the weight of her find, and he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. However Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew that he was an innocent man, too, with the kind of intuition that guides the lucky flawlessly. And so she set out to prove it to the rest of the world.
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