#wilkiecollins

[bibliobethblog]

Wilkie Collins - what can I say? I’m absolutely flabbergasted that I’ve never read any of his work before, I’ve clearly been missing out. The Woman In White is described as the first and most influential novel in the Victorian genre to combine Gothic horror with psychological realism and it does it perfectly. ⁣ ⁣ This is the story initially of a young man, Walter Hartright who has an eerie encounter (with a woman in white) on a road in the middle of the night whilst on the way to take up a position of drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie. This encounter haunts him from the beginning of the narrative right to the very end of the novel exploring themes of insanity, identity, family dynamics and the role of the woman in society.⁣ ⁣ I loved this novel so much that I immediately was determined to research more about it. I learned that the author preferred that the reader should know as little as possible about the story so that the twists and turns would be even more surprising and effective. I simply cannot say anymore except to urge you that if you enjoy a good “sensation” novel, this superb story should be right up your street. ⁣ ⁣ During the period that Collins was writing in, serialisations of novels were popular so The Woman In White would have been released part by part. I can imagine how simultaneously exciting and frustrating that must have been, especially if the previous section had ended on a cliffhanger. Furthermore, each section of the novel is told by a separate witness to the events which only added to my reading enjoyment, particularly as we started to get to know each character better as the novel continued. ⁣ ⁣ The Woman In White is an outstanding piece of fiction that I’m so grateful to have finally experienced. It’s the sort of book you want to read all over again straight after finishing and I was so tempted to do just that. I can’t wait to check out the rest of his back catalogue! ⁣ ⁣ Five perfect stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ⁣ #bookstagramuk #scottishbookstagrammer #reviewingbooksonthegram #wilkiecollins #thewomaninwhite #newfavouriteauthors #penguinclothboundclassic #beautifulbookstagram #victoriansensation #gothichorrornovels https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZqN-troc6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[locuradelibrosblog]

♥️#RecomendacionesNavidadYReyesLL🎁🎄👑 ♥️¡ME ENCANTA WILKIE COLLINS! Y ME ENCANTA @albaeditorial. ♥️ #WilkieCollins es un autor que hay que leer SI o SI es maravilloso. ♥️#AlbaEditorial es una de mis editoriales preferidas por las preciosas ediciones que publica y los autores tan interesantes. 👉👉¿CONOCÉIS LA EDITORIAL? ¿Y A WILKIE COLLINS? Contadme 🗣️🗣️ MARIDO Y MUJER #MaridoYMujer En el prólogo de esta novela, un hombre descubre, al cabo de los años, que su matrimonio no es válido legalmente, ocasión que aprovecha para repudiar a su mujer y casarse con otra. Trece años después, Anne Silvester, la hija de la mujer repudiada, será también víctima, como su madre, de una extrema peculiaridad legal… sólo que en este caso se trata de la terrible posibilidad de haber contraído matrimonio, sin saberlo, con el prometido de su mejor amiga. Y eso no es todo… Hay otro hombre en liza, al que Anne ha amado y por el cual ha sido deshonrada: el apuesto y cínico Geoffrey Delamayn, «un Hércules moderno» que «añade al instinto irracional del perro la astucia calculadora de un hombre». Bajo los designios de este villano, lo que empieza como una cáustica, y a menudo hilarante, comedia de equívocos se transforma paulatinamente en un horrible cuadro conyugal de traición, venganza, malos tratos, locura y asesinato. Marido y mujer (1870), inmediatamente posterior a La Piedra Lunar, pertenece al período de mayor creatividad de Wilkie Collins, basada en circunstancias reales y centrada en torno a la Ley y a la brutalidad, encierra una atrevida denuncia de la institución del matrimonio, esa «ceremonia que dice, de hecho, ya que no con palabras: “Dad el salto en la oscuridad. ¡Lo santificamos pero no damos garantías!”» #LocuraDeLibros #RecomendacionesNavidadYReyesLocuraDeLibros2022🎁🎄👑 #RecomiendoLeer #ClubDeLectura #ClubDeLecturaLL #EncuentrosConEscritoresLL #RecomendacionesLL #LecturasLocuraDeLibros #MeEncanta #LeyendoSiempreYEnCualquierSitio #bookstagramespaña #bookstagrammers #bookstagrammer #leoycomparto #leyendo #siempreleyendo #Locaporloslibros #FelicesLecturas #Novela #YoLeo #YoLeoNovelaHistorica #Books #Libros #LibrosRecomendados #HoyRecomendamos #FelicesLecturas (en Club de Lectura LL) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmThkoFDKfD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cynicalclassicist]

From the 20th last month to the 21st this month, I read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins! It's a great mystery novel with brilliant characters! I loved it! #TheWomaninWhite #WilkieCollins

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[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

Hunted

by wilkiecollins

Stede Bonnet is living a very ordinary life when he's suddenly mugged by... demons? He launches an investigation that derails his entire existence. He looks for answers, experts, and unwittingly becomes a demon hunter. When all hope is lost he's approached by the best demon hunter in the land.

AU: Stede's divorce is triggered by his preoccupation with demons, and Ed trains him to fight the forces of darkness. PG13 until it's not.

Words: 1877, Chapters: 1/12, Language: English

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/43720128

[hello-thereadingnerd-blog]

When it's not the season for storms yet and the skies dress up in that menacing shade of grey, you can't but pick up a novel suited to the mood. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins belongs to the genre of mystery novel and draws inspiration for the plot from an actual 18th-century incident of abduction and unlawful imprisonment. No doubt, this novel is slated as the first sensational novel. #thewomaninwhite #wilkiecollins #mysterynovel #gothic #sensational #sensationalnovel #bookstagram #booktography #bookalicious #readingbooks #booksofinstagram #igbooks #igbookshop #mood #romance #stormandbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UO52NJOGH/?igshid=wkh0de7a36d7

[generallygothic]

"𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖆 𝖂𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓'𝖘 𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖚𝖗𝖊, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖆 𝕸𝖆𝖓'𝖘 𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖊." - Wilkie Collins 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Published in 1860, 'The Woman in White' is described as not only a "great melodrama," but also "acclaimed among the first and finest examples of mystery fiction." Central to the plot is the identity of the titular woman in white; "[w]as she an apparition... a madwoman... or merely a pawn in another's inscrutable scheme?" I thought I'd read this novel around a decade ago, but as I cannot answer that question and have just this moment learnt that Wilkie is William and not in fact a woman, I am beginning to think that perhaps I just owned this novel around a decade ago... Well, as luck would have it, @devon_isadevon requested a readalong during February's focus on the 👁Gothic Psyche👁. My new, secondhand, 1985 edition has arrived, complete with surprise Edward Gorey cover art💀🖤, & I'm pretty sure, like my own first copy, it's never been read (👉look at that pure, virginal spine). Time to break some book bones! Let me know if you'd like to read along with us. The more the merrier 🕯📖! I'll post something a little deeper than quotes from the back blurb once I know what it's all about! . #thewomaninwhite #wilkiecollins #gothicliterature #gothicfiction #englishliterature #classicliterature #victorianliterature #books #bookworm #booknerd #mysterynovel #melodrama #bookstagram #readalong #generallygothicbookclub #generallygothic #gothic #spookynerd #gothicpsyche #madwoman #mentalhealth #bookquote #ghoststories #2020classics #secondhandbooks #edwardgorey https://www.instagram.com/p/B8e_EKwhywz/?igshid=oxugpo90i098

[dayan-watson]

Título: Los mejores relatos de misterio. . . . . . . . . . #dayan_watson #misterio #catherinecrowe #gkchesterton #edgarallanpoe #charlesdickens #guillaumeapollinaire #arthurconandoyle #danieldefoe #hectorhughmunro #lepoldolugones #guydemaupassant #wilkiecollins #robertehoward #darkacademia #darkacademiaespañol #cambridge #london #darkacademiaaesthetic #darkacademiavibes #books #bookslovers #intp #frasesdeldia #frasesdelibros #frasesdeldía #frases #phrases #love (en Dark Academia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgsJzjDuMIS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ella86]

Spooky reading 👻😱📖 #spookyreading #halloweenreading #halloweenseason #halloween #wilkiecollins #wilkiedelmiocuore #thehautedhotel #lalbergostregato #newtoncompton #booksfeed #bookfeatures #breakfastreading #homemadecake #coffee #october #autumn https://www.instagram.com/p/BpgiIXMl4OH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ipo1tcpyh5cr

[bibliobethblog]

When you’re trying to take a pic of your #currentlyreading pile from your sickbed and you end up having to take two pics - is THAT too many books? 😂 Here’s what I’m reading this week! I’m still making my way through The Woman In White (although I never want it to end!), Voyager in my journey through the Outlander series, Fairy Tale with the #keeperofking bookclub, The Return Of The Native and Life After Life the latter two of which are my current re-reads. I’m at chapter 4 in my audiobook - Murder - The Biography and still enjoying Light Rains Must Fall, a buddy read until Feb 2023 with Mr B. New reads include: Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, starting this tonight with #bitcrackbookclub The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - buddy reading with lots of lovely bookstagrammers and I’m adoring it so far. Nearly 200 pages in. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari- This is my current nonfiction read. I got to hear him speak in Foyles many years ago and still haven’t read his book! 🙈 A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor - this is a book of short stories and I’m starting it tonight as part of my reading challenge from @keeperofpages for book with an ugly front cover 🫣 No offence meant!! The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - reading this with bestie @emmasbookishcorner and we’re having our first chat tonight! About a third of the way through. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - another buddy reads with lots of bookstagrammers and my first ever Gaskell! Two thirds of the way through. What are you currently reading? Have you read any of these? Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #sapiensabriefhistoryofhumankind #yuvalnoahharari #fairytale #stephenking #klaraandthesun #kazuoishiguro #thecountofmontecristo #alexandredumas #thewomaninwhite #wilkiecollins #agoodmanishardtofind #flanneryoconnor #northandsouth #elizabethgaskell #thefirstwoman #jennifernansubugamakumbi #thereturnofthenative #thomashardy #lifeafterlife #kateatkinson #voyager #dianagabaldon #murderthebiography #katemorgan https://www.instagram.com/p/ClCNODSLidM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cynicalclassicist]

At the moment, I am reading a classic Victorian mystery thriller, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, which I began on the 20th. I read the seventh chapter of the third epoch today and am about to start the next chapter! #TheWomaninWhite #WilkieCollins

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[locuradelibrosblog]

#HoyRecomendamos 📚📖♥️ ARMADALE de #WilkieCollins y @albaeditorial ¡Un autor y una editorial que me encanta! Este en especial viene en edición de lujo (qué quita el sentido y que ya tiene un sitio especial en mi biblioteca) 👉Lo podéis encontrar en la @ferialibromadrid en la CASETA 262 de la editorial ♥️ #Armadale #AlbaEditorial El viejo Allan Armadale, plantador de las Antillas, confiesa por escrito en su lecho de muerte un horrible secreto que solo debe conocer su hijo cuando cumpla la mayoría de edad. Veinte años después, este hijo mulato se hace llamar Ozias Midwinter, es melancólico y, después de una vida atribulada y sin afecto, encuentra por fin un amigo: un joven impulsivo y cordial, amante del mar y libre de preocupaciones, que hereda inesperadamente una gran fortuna. Pero la revelación del secreto causa un enorme sufrimiento, complicado por la intervención de una hermosa pelirroja de oscuro pasado, la señorita Lydia Gwilt, que, con sus maquinaciones y falta de escrúpulos, está dispuesta a sembrar el caos por allí donde pasa: «He demostrado ­­se jacta en una ocasión­– que yo no soy yo». Antítesis de la redimible «mujer caída» victoriana, rebelde a toda sumisión, azote de la respetabilidad y el sentimentalismo, este personaje es sin duda una de las mayores creaciones de Wilkie Collins y el motor de una endiablada trama de codicia, acoso, suplantación y asesinato. De la ciudad balneario de Wildbad a la agreste isla de Man, de Madeira al laberíntico Londres, de los lagos de Norfolk a la soleada Nápoles, Armadale (1864-1866), que aquí presentamos en traducción de @josecvales ♥️, va de lo onírico a lo real, de lo patético a lo cómico sin conceder apenas un respiro al lector. El mero nombre de Armadale, signo de legitimidad, herencia y poder, es también como una palabra mágica, a veces una maldición y otras un encanto. «Como todas las novelas de Collins ­–dijo T. S. Eliot–, tiene el inmenso (y cada día más raro) mérito de no ser nunca aburrida.» #RecomendacionesDeLectura #FLM2021 #EncuentrosZomClubDeLecturaLL #ClubDeLectura #ClubDeLecturaLL #EncuentrosConEscritoresLL #PromociónDeLibros #PromociónDeLibrosLL #PepaEntreLibros #LocuraDeLibros (en Feria del Libro de Madrid) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUKVi3ADa4B/?utm_medium=tumblr

[missdarcy87]

“ This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.” –Wilkie Collins 👻 • Color me intrigued! As opening lines go, that one grabbed my attention. 👻 • • • #wilkiecollins #spookyreads #bookstagram #bookfeatured #bookfeaturepage #bookdragon #bookphotography #bookblogger #vscocam #coffee #dickensbuddies

[annesophiebooks]

Bonne soirée d’Halloween à tous 🎃 • Voici quelques titres et auteurs incontournables que je recommande systématiquement à cette période de l’année. Même s’ils sont agréables (et terrifiants !) à lire tout au long de l’année, la nature des histoires qu’ils racontent résonnent encore mieux aux alentours d’Halloween 😋 À savoir : • Les romans de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. • La plue magnifique et tellement noire du très grand Edgar Allan Poe. • Les fameux récits fantastiques, d’Alexandre Dumas. • L’immanquable Barbey d’Aurevilly. • Et bien sur le mystérieux Horace Walpole. • Sans oublier Melville et Wiikie Collins, évidemment, mais que je n’avais pas la place de mettre sur la photo, et que je vous réserve pour le prochain Halloween 😉 • A l’époque de ces auteurs, nul besoin de scènes ultra sanglantes, de descriptions horrifiantes, ou même de dialogues en plus de jeunes ou de terreur. Non, à cette époque, tout était dans le style et dans l’ambiance qu’ils parvenaient à faire naître sous nos yeux. Et, franchement, ça ne prend pas une ride ! • Et vous, lesquels ont votre préférence ? • Confinés ou non, excellente soirée à tous, et à demain 😘 ◼️ #halloween #happyhalloween #bonnesoiree #confinement #lecture #roman #nouvelles #livres #instabook #livrestagram #auteur #lectrice #romanfantastique #barbeydaurevilly #wilkiecollins #alexandredumas #edgarallanpoe #horacewalpole #lefanu #melville #litterature #litteraturefrancaise #litteratureamericaine #litteratureanglaise #alire #ideelecture #conseillecture #bookstagram #lire #bookaddict https://www.instagram.com/p/CHA-EPLHX2V/?igshid=ntdzxvseo377

[generallygothic]

"[𝕬] 𝖌𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖆 𝖌𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙." - Susan Hill 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 [Continuing from above:] "That is, a human being who appears in recognisable form after death and is seen at certain particular times, in certain particular places, regularly or spasmodically or even only once, by anyone. And in many of the best ghost stories that 'anyone' is often a someone of the most unimaginative and straightforward kind, a plain man not easily frightened, who if you were to ask him, would say with a laugh that he most certainly did not believe in such things as ghosts. He - or of course she - would not see the ghost when under the influence of drugs, drink or illness, either. They must be of sound mind, in good health." So says Susan Hill, author of 'The Woman in Black' (1989). Wilkie Collins, author of 'The Woman in White' (1860) seems to agree. He argues that plot isn't always essential to effective novel-writing, but that the figures to which events (or indeed non-events) happen are paramount: "[I]t is not possible to tell a story successfully without presenting characters: their existence as recognisable realities being the sole condition on which the story can be effectively told." 🕷 For September's 👻Glimpses of Ghosts👻 I intend to complete this monochrome pair of women. 'The Woman in White' I started earlier this year but misplaced during my move. 'The Woman in Black' I have seen, but never read. I have it on good authority that both are fantastic (as are @devon_isadevon & @gothicbookworm 🖤 ). Inspired by both authors, I'll try to focus upon the characters, living or dead, rather than getting lost too entirely in events. 🤔: If you were on the receiving end of a haunting, what kind of character would you reveal yourself to be? . #glimpsesofghosts #ghoststories #gothicnovel #gothichorror #bookstagram #tbr #ghost #ghost👻 #thewomaninwhite #thewomaninblack #wilkiecollins #susanhill #bookphotography #gothic #spookynerd #autumnvibes🍁 #spookyseason #spookyreads #classicliterature #englishliterature #generallygothic #toberead #septemberreads https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7RzO2gyyi/?igshid=y0q29m1ztxqx