|
|
No Name
Автор: Collins Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 784 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132011-10-20
|
|
Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that their parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their estate, they must fend for themselves and either resign themselves to their fate or determine to recover their wealth by whatever means.
|
| |
|
The Law and the Lady
Автор: Collins Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112013-03-16
|
|
Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register; this slip is followed by a gradual disclosure of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads to another set of questions and enigmas. Developing many of the techniques at work in The Moonstone in bizarre and unexpected ways, and employing both Gothic and fantastic elements, The Law and the Lady adds a significant dimension to the history of the detective novel.
|
| |
|
Creative Research
Автор: Collins Жанр: Разное Издательство: AVA Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
|
|
Techniques and procedures for collecting and analysing different types of data are examined and analysed in detail. The skills necessary to promote the effectiveness and validity of research within the creative industries are highlighted in case studies, all of which also demonstrate what a well-designed research project can achieve.
|
| |
|
The Woman in White: Clothbound Classics
Автор: Collins Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20162014-06-28
|
|
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
|
| |
