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A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, "A Rogue's Life" follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytelling--and with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings today--this is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best. Propelled into soci ...Show more
No Name by Wilkie Collins
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Norah is forced to become a governess to earn her keep but Magdalen has grander plans and embarks on an elaborate scheme of revenge against her ...Show more
No Name by Wilkie Collins
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will, and when the girls are suddenly orphaned, their inheritance goes to their uncle. Now penniless, the conventional Norah takes up ...Show more
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
$13.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The Frozen DeepBy Wilkie CollinsThe date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is-dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from the ...Show more
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question- am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and sud ...Show more
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Nonsuch Classics
A murder-mystery set in Venice, from the author of "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone".
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Part of the "Collector's Library" series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during the night the ensuing investigations gradually bring to light the sinister history ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant ...Show more
The Moonstone (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Wilkie Collins
$19.98 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
When Rachel Verinder turns eighteen she inherits a large and spectacular diamond known as The Moonstone from an uncle who had served in the British Army in India. Unaware of the importance of the diamond in Hindu religion, Rachel wears her new prize on her gown at her birthday celebration. But when Indi ...Show more