His other most recent books include the Twenty-first Century Oxford Authors, Algernon Charles Swinburne (2016) and volume 5 of the Oxford English Texts, Selected Prose of Edward Thomas (2017). He has edited Anthony Trollope's The Duke's Children (2011), Framley Parsonage (2014), The Way We Live Now (2016), and Orley Farm (2018) as well as Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (2014) and John Ruskin's Praeterita (2012) for Oxford World's Classics. The Moonstone is a text that grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.įrancis O'Gorman is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Escribió 27 novelas, más de 60 relatos cortos, al menos 14 obras de teatro y más de 100 obras de no ficción. Entranced with double lives, with men and women who only know part of the story, Collins weaves their narratives into a web of suspense. William Wilkie Collins (Londres, 8 de enero de 1824 - ib., 23 de septiembre de 1889) fue un novelista, dramaturgo y autor de relatos cortos inglés. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive, moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of the truth. Sin que ninguno de los dos pueda evitarlo, surge entre ellos un profundo amor, enturbiado por el compromiso de la muchacha con sir Percival Glyde, que solo busca. One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more, not less inexplicable. Walter Hartright se traslada a Limmeridge para dar clases de dibujo a Laura, sobrina y heredera del baró n Frederick Fairlie. Price New from Used from Kindle 'Please retry' 7. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa household servant, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, a dying medical manvibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves. La mujer de blanco Paperback JSpanish Edition by Wilkie Collins(Author), Miguel ngel Prez Prez(Translator) 4.3 out of 5 stars120 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?Ī celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house.

La mujer de blanco by Wilkie Collins