Wilkie Collins

8 Jan 1824 – 23 Sep 1889

100 works on record

Biography

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for *The Woman in White* (1859) and *The Moonstone* (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals *All the Year Round* and *Household Words* and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieved financial stability and an international following with his best known works in the 1860s, but began suffering from gout. Taking opium for the pain grew into an addiction. In the 1870s and 1880s his writing quality declined with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between Caroline Graves and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children. **Source**: [Wilkie Collins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins) on Wikipedia.

Works

The Dead Hand and The Bride's Chamber

2009

No Name, Volume 1

2007

The Law and the Lady Volume II

2007

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

2006

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

2006

No Name, Volume 2

2006

A House to Let

2004

A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World

2003

The Evil Genius. A Domestis Story

2001

The Christmas Stories [8 stories]

2000

Under the Management of Mr. Charles Dickens

2000

The Cricket on the Hearth and other Christmas stories (Cricket on the Hearth / Haunted House / Holly-Tree)

1994

The Moonstone/The Haunted Hotel/My Lady's Money

1994

Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales [10 stories]

1985

The moonstone

1982

The Dead Alive

1982

Tales of suspense

1954

Works (Child's History of England / No Thoroughfare)

1908

The Holly Tree Inn and A Christmas Tree (Christmas Tree / Holly Tree)

1907

Works (Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices / No Thoroughfare / Tale of Two Cities / Uncommercial Traveller)

1900

John Jasper's Secret

1898

Works (Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices / Reprinted Pieces)

1896

Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices / No Thoroughfare / Perils of Certain English Prisoners

1890

Little Novels

1887

The Dickens-Collins Christmas Stories (Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices / No Thoroughfare)

1880

Jezebel's Daughter

1880

The haunted hotel. To which is added, My lady's money

1879

Sights a-foot

1876

The Law and the Lady

1875

Miss or Mrs.?, and other stories in outline

1873

After dark, and other stories

1873

Man and Wife

1870

The Frozen Deep

1866

My miscellanies

1863

The Queen of Hearts

1862

A Message from the Sea

1860

Perils of Certain English Prisoners

1857

Basil

1852

The works of Wilkie Collins

1850

Memoirs of the life of William Collins, esq., R. A

1848

Works (No Thoroughfare / Uncommercial Traveller)

Das große Halloween- Lesebuch

The Uncommercial Traveller, and Additional Christmas Stories

Detective, Mystery, Crime, and Horror Books on CD

Alicia Warlock, a mystery, and other stories

Coffret Wilkie, W. Collins

El Circulo de Los Distraidos y Otros Misterios Clasicos (Coleccion Paladar Negro)

La Dama de Glenwith Grange

Woman in White: A Novel, The (Part Two) & Short Stories

Works Of Wilkie Collins (30 Volumes)

Classic Short Stories

Queen of Hearts, The; Little Novel

Two Destinies: A Novel, The & Little Novels

Wilkie Collins on CD ROM

A Fair Penitent

Works of Wilkie Collins - 30 Volumes

Mr. Lismore And The Widow

Dream Woman and Other Stories (Phoenix Short Stories)

Sister Rose

The Dead Secret-A Novel & Little Novel-Miss Bertha and the Yankee

Quien Mato a Zebedee?

Tales of terror and the supernatural

Classic Crimes of Passion

Works

Who killed Zebedee?

The World's One Hundred Best Stories

The captain's last love

Cases Worth Looking At

Works

Moonstone, The (Part Two) & The New Magdalen

The public face of Wilkie Collins

No Name (Part Two) & Little Novels

The yellow mask, or, The ghost of the ball room

Works

The Raven and the Monkey's Paw

The Guilty River and the Ghost's Touch

The best of Wilkie Collins

Sensation stories

Gruselgeschichten

Three Victorian Detective Novels

The Yellow Mask and Other Stories

The letters of Wilkie Collins

Miss Gwilt

Biter Bit and Other Stories

Basil & Little Novels

Rogue's Life: From His Birth to His Marriage, The; Little Novels

Man and Wife: A Novel (Part Two) & Short Stories

The complete shorter fiction

The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories

W Collins

Histoires regrettables

Miss Bertha and the Yankee and Other Stories

Ioláni, or, Tahíti as it was

The best supernatural stories of Wilkie Collins

Blow Up With the Brig

Three great novels

Classic Ghost Stories

Curses

The Bells of London

Classic Ghost Stories