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2001 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie Publisher: Rizzoli Pubblicato nel 1868, 'La pietra di luna' narra, attraverso i diari privati dei vari personaggi coinvolti nell'avvenimento, il furto di un'antichissima pietra preziosa indiana dedicata alla divinità della luna e custodita da tre bramini che si sono impegnati, dietro giuramento, a dare la vita per difenderla da ladri sacrileghi. In un susseguirsi di scene melodrammatiche e a effetto, di avventure e di trame elaborate, si mettono a confronto le sfaccettature dello stesso evento, si integrano le mancanze, si colgono incongruenze e contraddizioni dei singolari diari, si imboccano piste false, si abbozzano soluzioni errate fino a giungere allo scioglimento del mistero. € 12,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie; Basso F. (cur.) Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo € 8,00
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2000 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie; Quasimodo F. (cur.) Publisher: Palumbo € 14,50
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1999 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie, Farmer Steve (EDT) Publisher: Broadview Pr Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s.Collins's story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff—with a face "sharp as a hatchet"—looks for the culprit.One of Collins's best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone Was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition. € 15,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie, Skilton David (EDT) Publisher: Penguin Classics Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife. Convinced of his innocence, Valeria is prepared to do anything to clear her husband's name, and in so doing upturns the conventions of polite nineteenth century society. € 15,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie, Kemp Sandra (EDT) Publisher: Penguin Classics 'When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else' The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels', The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. Sandra Kemp's introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins's sources and autobiographical references. € 11,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie Publisher: Fazi Senza nome è uno degli esempi più belli di 'melodramma contenuto', secondo la definizione di Thomas S. Eliot, dell'opera di Wilkie Collins. Capolavoro di minuziosa osservazione psicologica e allo stesso tempo critica decisa alle storture della società vittoriana, ha un posto di primo piano nella letteratura inglese del secolo scorso. Protagoniste ne sono due sorelle, Magdalen e Norah Vanstone che, per una sfortunata serie di circostanze, alla morte improvvisa dei genitori si trovano private di una cospicua eredità e sono costrette a guadagnarsi da vivere. Sullo sfondo di questa contrastata vicenda, scandita da perizie legali e tradimenti, emergono i personaggi, mirabilmente caratterizzati, di una storia intensamente drammatica, ma anche venata di umorismo. Una strepitosa narrazione, ricca di innumerevoli colpi di scena, in cui ogni elemento si ricollega all'altro in una dinamica continua e incessante. Un romanzo che per tutto il 1862 ha tenuto in sospeso migliaia di lettori che ne seguivano gli sviluppi sulla rivista 'Ali The Year Round'. € 19,63
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1996 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo 'Mi resi subito conto che il padrone aveva un umore molto variabile. Alcuni giorni era fin troppo amichevole con le persone di servizio; ma altre volte pareva invaso da uno spirito maligno; allora entrava in accessi di violenta collera, e quando un'idea storta gli entrava nel capo, né le osservazioni né i ragionamenti potevano smuoverlo. Considerando quanto fosse di umore rumoroso ed allegro, mi sorprendeva che avesse potuto acconsentire a rimanere in un sito tanto tranquillo e noioso quanto Darrock; ma in breve ne compresi la ragione.' € 7,00
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1995 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie, Sutherland John (EDT) Publisher: Penguin Classics € 17,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie, Ford Mark Publisher: Penguin Classics Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different order of suspense from that of The Woman in White or The Moonstone. For its family secret - the Vanstone daughters' illegitimacy, their consequent disinheritance and fall from social grace - is revealed early on, and as Magdalen Vanstone struggles to reclaim her identity, the plot uncovers many a moral, social and legal skeleton in the cupboards of Victorian society. Mercurial and unscrupulous, Magdalen is Wilkie Collins's most exhilarating heroine, one of the rare subversives in Victorian fiction and a woman dazzlingly versatile in her powers of self-transformation. Through her, with great comic vigour, No Name exposes how social identity is constructed, and how it can be dismantled, buried, borrowed or invented. € 17,00
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1993 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie Publisher: Mursia Un romanzo poliziesco che prende il via con il furto di un diamante indiano, i cui meravigliosi riflessi cambiano con il mutare delle fasi lunari. L'intreccio del racconto e la descrizione dei personaggi creano suspense sino all'ultima pagina. € 4,50
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1992 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie Publisher: Everymans Library Rachel Verinder mysteriously opposes an investigation of the theft of a sacred Hindu diamond which she inherited from her uncle € 23,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Wilkie Collins Publisher: Wordsworth editions € 3,95
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1991 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie Publisher: Everymans Library The mysterious appearance of a woman dressed in all white leads to the discovery of a complicated plot involving a stolen inheritance € 21,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie; Basso F. (cur.) Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo € 7,00
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1985 |
![]() ![]() Author: Collins Wilkie; Brilli A. (cur.) Publisher: Sellerio Editore Palermo € 7,00
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