Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian mystery stories and Gothic tales with multiple narrators, suspense, and social insightBy Wilkie Collins
Length124h 29m
About this audiobook
Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins gathers the concentrated artistry of one of Victorian fiction's great architects of suspense. These tales range across mystery, melodrama, ghostly suggestion, legal intrigue, and domestic unease, displaying Collins's gift for ingenious plotting, shifting testimony, and morally charged revelation. Written largely for the periodical market, they stand at the crossroads of Gothic inheritance, sensation fiction, and the emerging detective mode, compressing into miniature form the narrative energies that animate The Woman in White and The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens, was shaped by the theatricality of Victorian popular culture, the pressures of serial publication, and a lifelong fascination with law, medicine, inheritance, and social hypocrisy. His unconventional private life and skepticism toward respectable institutions sharpened his sympathy for outsiders—women constrained by law, the poor, the disabled, and those trapped by appearances. This collection is recommended to readers who want to see how Collins refined suspense into a versatile literary instrument. It will especially reward admirers of Victorian fiction, early crime writing, and psychologically alert storytelling, offering both entertainment and a revealing map of nineteenth-century anxieties.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length124 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Complete Short Stories of Wilkie Collins (Annotated)
26My Miscellanies (pt. 1)
2Introduction
27My Miscellanies (pt. 2)
3Author Biography
28My Miscellanies (pt. 3)
4Historical Context
29My Miscellanies (pt. 4)
5Synopsis (Selection)
30My Miscellanies (pt. 5)
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6After The Dark (pt. 1)
31My Miscellanies (pt. 6)
7After The Dark (pt. 2)
32My Miscellanies (pt. 7)
8After The Dark (pt. 3)
33No Thoroughfare (pt. 1)
9After The Dark (pt. 4)
34No Thoroughfare (pt. 2)
10After The Dark (pt. 5)
35No Thoroughfare (pt. 3)
11After The Dark (pt. 6)
36Miss or Mrs? (pt. 1)
12After The Dark (pt. 7)
37Miss or Mrs? (pt. 2)
13The Ostler
38"Blow up with the Brig!"
14Mr. Wray's Cash Box (pt. 1)
39The Hidden Cash
15Mr. Wray's Cash Box (pt. 2)
40The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
16The Queen of Hearts (pt. 1)
41The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (pt. 1)
17The Queen of Hearts (pt. 2)
42The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (pt. 2)
18The Queen of Hearts (pt. 3)
43The Last Stage Coachman
19The Queen of Hearts (pt. 4)
44The Fatal Cradle
20The Queen of Hearts (pt. 5)
45The Frozen Deep
21The Queen of Hearts (pt. 6)
46The Captain's Last Love
22The Queen of Hearts (pt. 7)
47The Dead Hand
23A House to Let (pt. 1)
48The Devil's Spectacles
24A House to Let (pt. 2)
49The First Officer's Confession
25The Haunted House ("The Ghost in the Cupboard Room")
50Farmer Fairweather
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