Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Graphic
Author: The Windings of the Labyrinth
Author: Peter ThomsPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Author of such feats of storytelling as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins has traditionally been recognized far more than for his accomplishments as a serious novelist. In this study of The Moonstone, Peter Thoms argues for a new appreciation of this early master of detection and intrigue. Plotting in Collins, Thoms contends, represents much more than the skillful carpentry of the novelist: It constitutes the essential drama of the major novels themselves, as protagonists struggle for control of the stories in which they find themselves embedded. "Mr. Thoms' scholarly contribution is in recognizing an important constructive quality in Collins' evident fascination with intricate and intriguing plotting. Other critics, he says, have tended to single out Collins' plots as indications of his superficiality as a writer. Mr. Thoms' study does, in fact, demonstrate that there is much more to Collins' elaborate plots than the delights of suspense and detection. So his main claim is justified in that he increases our respect for the ramifications of Collins' story-telling techniques." -John R. Reed The Windings of the Labyrinth asserts that the structures of Collins's major novels possess surprising sophistication - that each of these novels elaborates a quest for identity, and that this quest for a personal story is intimately tied to the emergence of the novel's structure. In reappraising Collins's achievement, Thoms has written an accessible study that will be of interest no only to Victorian scholars, readers of Collins, and students of detective fiction but to anyone interested in the relationship between a novel's plot and its meaning.
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoEnglish Prose Fiction, Rev. and Enl. 1903
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Catalogue of Books
Author: Perth (W.A.). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Class List ...: English prose fiction. 1897
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Haunted Hotel
Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 1537823701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?
Catalogue of Books in the Public Library of Western Australia
Author: Western Australia. Public Library, PerthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description