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The Haunted Hotel

Autor Wilkie Collins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2016
First published in 1878, The Haunted Hotel is among the later works of Wilkie Collins, famous for his 1868 novel The Moonstone, widely considered as the first modern English detective novel. The Haunted Hotel is notable for its atmosphere--a decaying palace in Venice--as well as intrigue among members of the aristocracy.
"Wilkie Collins invented the genre of the English detective novel." T.S. ELIOT
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780692713457
ISBN-10: 069271345X
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Touchladybirdlucky Studios

Notă biografică

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is considered the inventor of the modern English detective novel with his book The Moonstone (1868). A contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens, who serialized many of Collins' works in magazines he edited, Collins is also remembered for his classic mystery The Woman in White.

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An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a note containing one thousand pounds.

With the palazzo now transformed into a luxury hotel, and the late Lord Montbarry's family in residence, these strands begin to come together, yet strange and macabre events are occurring, and the dead seem unable to rest.

Recenzii

Wilkie Collins is the finest practitioner of the novel of sensation.