Miss or Mrs? ; The haunted hotel ; The guilty river / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by Norman Page and Toru Sasaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Contributor:

Page, Norman.

Sasaki, Tōru, 1956-

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1999

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 361 pages ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

Miss or Mrs? ; The haunted hotel ; The guilty river

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Wilkie Collins brought to the novella all the qualities for which his full-length fiction is renowned: gripping situations, an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and page-turning suspense. The fast-paced Miss or Mrs? (1871), with its extraordinary heroine, features attempted murder, blackmail, clandestine marriage, and commercial fraud. Eerie and psychologically absorbing, The Haunted Hotel (1878) is set in a modern hotel converted from an ancient Venetian palazzo that houses a grisly secret. The Guilty River (1886), one of Collins's most haunting tales, blends nostalgia and violence as two alienated men find themselves attracted to the same woman. All three novellas reflect the prevailing themes of Collins's later work: the exploration of legal aspects of marriage, his preoccupation with the figure of the Outsider in Victorian society, and the depiction of unconventional relationships. This edition sets Collins's novellas in the context of his literary career, and the late-Victorian reading public.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxvii]-xxviii).

Contains:

Haunted hotel.

Guilty river.

ISBN:

0192833073

OCLC:

39223590