A Londres, en 1860, le célèbre docteur Wibrow reçoit une mystérieuse et envoûtante dame qui le supplie de déterminer si elle est folle. Dans le second roman, un jeune homme malchanceux voit en songe la femme de ses rêves. Quand il se réveille, elle essaie de l'assassiner. ©Electre 2024
The Haunted Hotel
A Mystery of Modern Venice
"The door of the sitting-room was thrown open violently ; The courier's wife rushed in like a mad woman. 'He's dead ! they've murdered him !'Those wild words were all she could say. She dropped on her knees at the foot of the sofaheld out her hand with something clasped in it- and fell back in a swoon."
A crumbling palace hastily made over as a luxury hotel, a man gone missing, and an anonymous letter set the scene for The Haunted Hotel.
Wilkie Collins, undisputed inventor of the detective novel, published this Mystery of Modern Venice in 1879, at the end of his prolific career. Most of his novels, amongst which The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868), were first serialized in magazines edited by his friend Charles Dickens with whom he travelled to Italy and notably to Venice in 1853.
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The Dream-Woman
Suddenly awakened in the dead of night, a young man sees a woman with a knife in her hand looking at him... Is she a dream, or "that other creature from the unknown world called among men by the name of ghost ? "
Paru le : 22/01/2005
Thématique : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Littérature anglo saxonne classique en VO
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Wilkie Collins
Éditeur(s) :
Zulma
Collection(s) : Zulma classics
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9782843042843
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 207
Hauteur: 19.0 cm / Largeur 13.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.5 cm
Poids: 190 g
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