Wilkie William Collins libro La donna in bianco
The Woman in White
Wilkie William Collins è stato uno scrittore inglese, amico e collaboratore di Charles Dickens.
La sua produzione letteraria, e in particolare quella fantastica, è di assoluto rilievo, ma non vi è dubbio che a tutt'oggi sia maggiormente conosciuto dal grande pubblico per i romanzi gialli La donna in bianco, La Pietra di Luna, La legge e la signora e La follia dei Monkton. La pietra di Luna è, inoltre, il primo fair-play, ossia il primo romanzo in cui il lettore dispone di tutti gli indizi per risolvere il mistero, anche se Collins complica le indagini con falsi indizi. Questo senza nulla togliere ai molti altri romanzi e ai numerosissimi racconti da lui scritti. G.K. Chesterton ebbe una volta modo di scrivere relativamente a Dickens e Collins: «Erano due uomini che nessuno può superare nello scrivere storie di fantasmi».
Wilkie William Collins libro La donna in bianco
The Woman in White
“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Variante: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Origine: The Woman in White
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226) <br class="br">Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169) <br class="br">Origine: The Woman in White (1859)
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336) <br class="br">Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224) <br class="br">Origine: The Woman in White (1859)
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)
Wilkie Collins libro The Moonstone
[Street, 1868] ( p. 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82) <br class="br">Also in Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century https://books.google.com/books?id=E2S3nWp-lAgC&pg=PT61 by Leonard Sweet [Zondervan, 2009, ISBN 0-310-83380-9] <br class="br">Origine: The Moonstone (1868)
“Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro The Moonstone
Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] ( p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=zZPzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22) <br class="br">Origine: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49).
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Volume II [Tauchnitz,
Origine: The Woman in White (1859)
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins libro La donna in bianco
Origine: The Woman in White
“People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.”
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz] ( p. 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=sKYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57) <br class="br">Also in Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Collins & Catherine Peters [Oxford University Press, 1998] (p. 139)
Wilkie Collins libro The Moonstone
[Street, 1868] ( p. 54 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA18) <br class="br">Also in Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England by Anne Schwan [University of New Hampshire Press, 2014, ISBN 1611686725] ( p. 82 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82) <br class="br">The Moonstone (1868)
Wilkie Collins libro The Law and the Lady
The Law and the Lady [Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1875] ( p. 195) <br class="br">Also in Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock by Eleanor Salotto [Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-137-11770-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=qPmE-w86r0AC&pg=PA195 ( p. 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=recYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39) <br class="br">The Law and the Lady (1875)
Wilkie Collins libro Armadale
Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] ( p. 130 https://books.google.com/books?id=v7sBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130) <br class="br">Also in Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot by Carolyn Oulton [Springer, 2002, ISBN 0-230-50464-7] ( p. 136 https://books.google.com/books?id=abuADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136)
“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
Wilkie Collins libro Man and Wife
Man and Wife - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870] ( p. 235 https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp-ZFYLTW6QC&pg=PA235) <br class="br">Also in Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein [International Universities Press, 2003, 0-823-66681-6] (p. 155)