《威尔基·柯林斯合集》（10本）作者：威尔基·柯林斯【TXT】

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作者简历

威尔基·柯林斯，英国着名小说家。他生于伦敦，父亲是个风景画家，他早年就读于海堡私立学校，12岁随父母移居意大利，15岁回到英国学习法律，学成后当了律师。1847年，其父逝世，23岁的他尝试写作，第一部作品是记叙其父生平的《威廉·柯林斯的一生》。1850年，他创作了第一部小说《罗马的陷落》。接着又写了《贝锡尔》、《捉迷藏》，并认识了当时着名的大作家狄更斯。后成为了狄更斯的女婿。
在文学的熏陶下，他成为一个流行小说作家，他的不少作品在维多利亚
时代最风行的杂志《家常话》上发表，如《日落以后》、《死亡的秘密》、《我的杂志》等等，他的代表作是《月亮宝石》、《白衣女人》和《新济良所》。另外，《可怜的芬区小姐》、《一个流浪汉的一生》、《黑袍》均有一定的影响。《月亮宝石》是威尔基·柯林斯创作巅峰时期的代表作，也是世界侦探小说史上的一部杰作。
代表作：《威廉·柯林斯的一生》、《罗马的陷落》、《贝锡尔》、《捉迷藏》、《家常话》、《日落以后》、《死亡的秘密》、《我的杂志》、《月亮宝石》、《白衣女人》、《新济良所》、《可怜的芬区小姐》、《一个流浪汉的一生》、《黑袍》、《闹鬼的旅馆》等


　　合集目录

　　01 Heart and Science : a story of the present time

　　The weary old nineteenth century had advanced into the last twenty years of its life.
　　Towards two o’clock in the afternoon, Ovid Vere (of the Royal College of Surgeons) stood at the window of his consulting-room in London, looking out at the summer sunshine, and the quiet dusty street.
　　He had received a warning, familiar to the busy men of our time - the warning from overwrought Nature, which counsels rest after excessive work. With a prosperous career before him, he had been compelled (at only thirty-one years of age) to ask a colleague to take charge of his practice, and to give the brain which he had cruelly wearied a rest of some months to come. On the next day he had arranged to embark for the Mediterranean in a friend’s yacht.

　　02 The Haunted Hotel

　　In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times.
　　One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon after a specially hard morning’s work in his consulting-room, and with a formidable list of visits to patients at their own houses to fill up the rest of his day - when the servant announced that a lady wished to speak to him.

　　03 The First Officer's Confession

　　She is at the present time, as I have every reason to believe, the most distinguished woman in England - she has never written a novel.
　　I first saw her on board of our steamship, bound from New York to Liverpool. She was accompanied by her dog; and there occu…

　　04 The Fallen Leaves

　　Experience of the reception of _The Fallen Leaves_ by intelligent readers, who have followed the course of the periodical publication at home and abroad, has satisfied me that the design of the work speaks for itself, and that the scrupulous delicacy of treatment, in certain portions of the story, has been as justly appreciated as I could wish. Having nothing to explain, and (so far as my choice of subject is concerned) nothing to excuse, I leave my book, without any prefatory pleading for it, to make its appeal to the reading public on such merits as it may possess. -- Wilkie Collins, GLOUCESTER PLACE, LONDON, July 1st, 1879

　　05 The Dead Secret

　　"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me! Terror when her pitying eyes look at me; terror when her kind voice speaks to me; terror when her tender hand touches mind!" Porthgenna Tower on the remote western Cornish coast. Moments before her death, Mrs Treverton dictates a secret to her maid, never to be passed to her husband as she had instructed. Fifteen years later, when Mrs Treverton's daughter, Rosamond, returns to Porthgenna with her blind husband, Leonard, she is intrigued by the strange and seemingly disturbed Mrs Jazeph's warning not to enter the Myrtle Room in the ruined north wing. Strong-minded and ingenious, Rosamond's determined detective work uncovers shocking and unsettling truths beyond all expectation. A mystery of unrelenting suspense and psychologically penetrating characters, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter, and buried secrets in a superb blend of romance and Gothic drama. Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret anticipates the themes of his next novel, The Woman in White in its treatment of mental illness, disguise and deception, and the dispossession of lost identity. Yet a series of comic figures offsets the tension, from the dyspeptic Mr Phippen to the perpetually smiling governess, Miss Sturch. Displaying the talent and energy which made Collins the most popular novelist of the 1860s, The Dead Secret represents a crucial phase in Collins's rise as a mystery writer, and was his first full-length novel written specifically for serialization.

　　06 The Dead Alive

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　　07 The Black Robe

　　It may be that women have no positive appreciation of what is beautiful in form and color--or it may be that they have no opinions of their own when the laws of fashion have spoken. This at least is certain, that not one of them in a thousand sees anything objectionable in the gloomy and hideous evening costume of a gentleman in the nineteenth century. A handsome man is, to their eyes, more seductive than ever in the contemptible black coat and the stiff white cravat.

　　08 Basil

　　罗勒是一位重视家庭谱系的父亲的儿子，他的父亲不会让他娶一个配不上他地位的女孩。在公交车上对一个女孩一见钟情。他跟踪她并且发现她是亚麻布店店主玛格丽特·舍温的唯一的女儿。他说服了她的父亲，让她跟他秘密结婚。
　　Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina.
　　Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read in his face, returns from abroad. On the last night of the year Basil follows Margaret and Mannion and discovers them in flagrante delicto. The tension up to this point is beautifully controlled by the writer. Basil has suffered estrangement from his dear sister Clara because of Margaret, only to discover she is not what he thought. He attacks Mannion in the street and tries to murder him, but succeeds only in mutilating his face by pushing it into the fresh tarmacadam in the road. Margaret goes to visit Mannion in hospital, catches typhus from another patient and dies. Basil has lost everything, including his relationship with his family. Mannion swears revenge and Basil flees from him to Cornwall. The dénouement is worthy of Conan Doyle, set among whirlpools and cliffs near Lands End.
　　In her introduction (Oxford World's Classics Edition), Dorothy Goldman concentrates on psychoanalytic theories that Basil and Mannion, Margaret and Clara, are each like opposite halves of the same person. But she appears to miss the deeply flawed character of Basil, who rushes into marriage with a woman he does not know at all. His first disappointment is that Margaret is not as intelligent as he had hoped.
　　Mrs Sherwin, Margaret’s mother, is Collins’ very first mad woman.

　　09 Antonina

　　Antonina is a poignant account of a young Russian woman whose life is shaped by the cruel neglect of her stepparents, the financial ruin of her father and later her husband, and - the centerpiece of the novel - her failed love affair with a sensitive but weak young man. This work is a previously untranslated section of a four-volume novel, The Niece, published in Russia in 1851. Patterned after the successful contemporary novels of the Bronte sisters - in fact, Tur names one character after the town of Millcote in Jane Eyre - Antonina was praised by another great nineteenth-century writer, Ivan Turgenev. Jehanne Gheith addresses the novel's continuing appeal in her illuminating introduction.

　　10 Armadale

　　TO
　　JOHN FORSTER.
　　In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his “Life of Goldsmith;” and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the happiest years of my life.
　　Readers in general - on whose friendly reception experience has given me some reason to rely - will, I venture to hope, appreciate whatever merit there may be in this story without any prefatory pleading for it on my part. They will, I think, see that it has not been hastily meditated or idly wrought out. They will judge it accordingly, and I ask no more.
　　Readers in particular will, I have some reason to suppose, be here and there disturbed, perhaps even offended, by finding that “Armadale” oversteps, in more than one direction, the narrow limits within which they are disposed to restrict the development of modern fiction - if they can.
　　Nothing that I could say to these persons here would help me with them as Time will help me if my work lasts. I am not afraid of my design being permanently misunderstood, provided the execution has done it any sort of justice. Estimated by the clap-trap morality of the present day, this may be a very daring book. Judged by the Christian morality which is of all time, it is only a book that is daring enough to speak the truth.
　　LONDON, April, 1866.