{"product_id":"2940014743037","title":"WILKIE COLLINS THE COMPLETE WORKS (Authoritative Nook Edition) WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER [Over 10 Million Books Sold] Includes All Major Works by Wilkie Collins The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, No Name and Books Co-Written by CHARLES DICKENS","description":"WILKIE COLLINS THE COMPLETE WORKS (Authoritative Nook Edition) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWORLDWIDE BESTSELLER [Over 10 Million Books Sold] Includes All Major Works by Wilkie Collins The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, No Name and Books Co-Written by CHARLES DICKENS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of Collins's most famous works were the precursors to the detective and suspense fiction genre of today. However, Collins also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. For example, his 1854 Hide and Seek contained one of the first portrayals of a deaf character in English literature. As did many writers of his time, Collins published most of his novels as serials in magazines such as Dickens's All the Year Round and was known as a master of the form, creating just the right degree of suspense to keep his audience reading from week to week. Sales of All The Year Round increased when The Woman in White followed A Tale of Two Cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollins enjoyed ten years of great success following publication of The Woman in White in 1859. His next novel, No Name combined social commentary – the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents (see Illegitimacy in fiction) – with a densely plotted revenge thriller. Armadale, the first and only of Collins's major novels of the 1860s to be serialised in a magazine other than All the Year Round, provoked strong criticism, generally centred upon its transgressive villainess Lydia Gwilt; and provoked in part by Collins's typically confrontational preface. The novel was simultaneously a financial coup for its author and a comparative commercial failure: the sum paid by Cornhill for the serialisation rights was exceptional, eclipsing by a substantial margin the prices paid for the vast majority of similar novels, yet the novel failed to recoup its publisher's investment. The Moonstone, published in 1868, and the last novel of what is generally regarded as the most successful decade of its author's career, was, despite a somewhat cool reception from both Dickens and the critics, a significant return to form and reestablished the market value of an author whose success in the competitive Victorian literary marketplace had been gradually waning in the wake of his first \"masterpiece\". Viewed by many to represent the advent of the detective story within the tradition of the English novel, The Moonstone remains one of Collins's most critically acclaimed productions, identified by T. S. Eliot as \"the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels...in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe\", and Dorothy L. Sayers referred to it as \"probably the very finest detective story ever written\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonina or, The Fall of Rome\u003cbr\u003eBasil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHide and Seek\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Secret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRogue's Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Woman in White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Name\u003cbr\u003eThe First Scene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmadale\u003cbr\u003eThe Moonstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moonstone\u003cbr\u003eSixth Narrative Contributed by Sergeant Cuff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMan and Wife\u003cbr\u003eMan and Wife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoor Miss Finch\u003cbr\u003eThe New Magdalen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Law and the Lady\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Destinies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Lady's Money\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted Hotel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fallen Leaves\u003cbr\u003eJezebel's Daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Robe\u003cbr\u003eHeart and Science: a story of the present time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. To Readers in Particular.\u003cbr\u003eI Say No\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Evil Genius: A Domestic Story\u003cbr\u003eThe Guilty River\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Legacy of Cain\u003cbr\u003eBlind Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr Wray's Cash Box\u003cbr\u003eAfter Dark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Queen of Hearts\u003cbr\u003eLittle Novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolpurno or The Student\u003cbr\u003eThe Twin Sisters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Passage in the Life of Perugino Potts\u003cbr\u003eA Terribly Strange Bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNine O'Clock!\u003cbr\u003eGabriel’s Marriage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Stolen Letter.\u003cbr\u003eSister Rose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Yellow Mask.\u003cbr\u003eBrother Griffith’s Story of Mad Monkton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrother Morgan’s Story of The Dream-Woman.\u003cbr\u003eThe Lady of Glenwith Grange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Fair Penitent\u003cbr\u003eBrother Owen’s Story of The Siege of the Black Cottage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrother Morgan’s Story of The Dead Hand\u003cbr\u003eBrother Griffith’s Story of The Family Secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrother Griffith’s Story of A Plot in Private Life.\u003cbr\u003eBrother Morgan’s Story of Fauntleroy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrother Griffith’s Story of The Biter Bit.\u003cbr\u003eThe Poisoned Meal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlow Up with the Brig!\u003cbr\u003eBrother Owen’s Story of The Parson’s Scruple.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemoirs of an Adopted Son\u003cbr\u003eThe Cauldron of Oil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fatal Cradle\u003cbr\u003eMiss or Mrs?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003cbr\u003eThe Frozen Deep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Jeromette and the Clergyman.\u003cbr\u003eMr. Captain and the Nymph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Captain and the Nymph.\u003cbr\u003eMiss Bertha and the Yankee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Percy and the Prophet.\u003cbr\u003eMiss Mina and the Groom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Marmaduke and the Minister.\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Zant and the Ghost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Devil’s Spectacles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd More!","brand":"Wilkie Collins Complete Works | Woman in White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147812552944,"sku":"2940014743037","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014743037_p0.jpg?v=1763614562","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014743037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}