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An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions.

A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave.

From the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White comes another gripping Victorian sensation novel... Read Full Overview

He noiselessly led the way into the hall, followed by the servant on tip-toe.

The Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students. An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English... Read Full Overview

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

"Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."

This is another Gothic tale by the author of the two seminal classics The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel is a book about mysterious happenings, ghost... Read Full Overview

Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this was also... Read Full Overview

From the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White comes another gripping Victorian sensation novel. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess... Read Full Overview

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to a London painter, William Collins, and his... Read Full Overview

Bei den in England verbliebenen Verwandten eines frisch verheirateten Ehemanns trifft ein Brief ein, der seinen Tod w?hrend der Flitterwochen in Italien anzeigt. Keiner der Verwandten will den Briefen, die seinen Tod best?tigen, Glauben schenken, und alle beginnen, gegen?ber... Read Full Overview

L'H tel hant est une sombre histoire de fant mes dans un h tel hant Venise, l' poque victorienne. Qui est vraiment la comtesse Narona ? Une veuve manipulatrice en apparence respectueuse des usages de la haute soci t victorienne ? Une intrigante pr te tout pour toucher... Read Full Overview

En 1860, la r putation du docteur Wybrow, de Londres, tait arriv e son apog e. Les gens bien inform s affirmaient que, de tous les m decins en renom, c' tait lui qui gagnait le plus d'argent. Un apr s-midi, vers la fin de l' t , le docteur venait de finir son d jeuner apr... Read Full Overview

El hotel encantado (The haunted hotel) nos relata los extra os acontecimientos sobrenaturales -y no tanto- que se produjeron en un decadente palacio veneciano devenido en hotel. La novela, inusualmente horror fica para Wilkie Collins, se mueve dentro de las arenas de la narrativa... Read Full Overview