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Works of Wilkie Collins [Kindle Edition]
Wilkie Collins (Author), Charles Dickens (Author)
THE DR. THORNDYKE MYSTERY OMNIBUS:
R. Austin Freeman
The works of Wilkie Collins with active table of contents. Works include:After DarkAntonina or, The Fall of RomeArmadaleBasilThe Black RobeBlind LoveThe Dead AliveThe Evil GeniusA Fair PenitentThe Fallen LeavesThe Frozen DeepThe Guilty RiverThe Haunted HotelA Mystery of Modern VeniceHeart and ScienceHide and SeekA House to LetI Say NoJezebel's DaughterThe Law and the LadyThe Legacy of CainLittle NovelsMan and WifeBiter BitDetective StoryMiss or Mrs?The MoonstoneA RomanceMy Lady's MoneyAn Episode in the Life of a Young GirlThe New MagdalenNo NameNo ThoroughfarePoor Miss FinchThe Queen of HeartsRambles Beyond Railways;or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-footA Rogue's LifeMr. Lismore and the WidowThe Two DestiniesThe Woman in WhiteThe Traveler’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
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Basil by Wilkie Collins Kindle Edition
Great author; ebook so-so
Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I wanted to read a little known early book by Wilkie Collins called Rambles Beyond Railways an account of a walking tour in west Cornwall made in the middle of the 19th century. As it was included in this compilation I bought it that way. The individual work is a delight with chapters about Land's End and the Lizard and subjects such as the Botallack Mine and the Pilchard Fishery. The compilation is worth buying just for that.In addition you have The Moonstone, The Woman in White and a host of other, mainly forgotten, works of Collins. There are many ebook compilations of author's works available and many, like this, advertise an 'active table of contents.' But that term seems to cover a host of sins. The fact is you can buy many collected works of authors like Shakespeare, Dickens, Hardy or Kipling that are navigable down to small units; to scenes, chapters or individual short stories. This compilation is not one of those. The 'Active Table of Contents' only takes you to the start of a given work. In the case of, for example, A Woman in White that is the start of a three volume blockbuster Victorian novel running to hundreds of pages. If you wish to go to a particular scene in the novel or if, when reading, you wish to look back at an earlier section and you have not put in your own highlight then this edition does not help you. Ok it's cheap and it's the whole works of Wilkie Collins but the publishers have made little effort and taken little thought in compiling it and it doesn't compare well with what some other publishers are doing, though unfortunately so far as I can see no one has done it yet for Wilkie Collins.UPDATE February 2012 A search for Wilkie Collins complete editions will now show that better editions are available.
Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase If you're a fan of Wilkie Collins then you won't need a review of the books. The important thing for this review is that the collection is complete and well-formatted.If you're new to this author, he was a contemporary of Charles Dickens and writes in a similar style. Well worth an investigation - The Woman In White is a good place to start.
Lots of Collins at a low price--but a poor TOC.
- Published on Amazon.com Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase [This review was revised on 06/07/12 and pertains specifically to the H&H edition--though some of the TOC issues I found in that version MAY also pertain to the Golgotha edition as well.]To get so very many of Wilkie Collins' significant works for only a dollar is a good deal. I like his tales; they are descriptive and often creepy, deliberately-paced and well-crafted, entertaining and satisfying. In my pre-Kindle days I had spent many years trying to obtain WC's works, and I never did round up this many. But the more I actually used and read this particular ebook collection, the more dissatisfied I became, not with Collins, but with this particular edition of his works.Access to specific items within it can be difficult and frustrating. The TOC does take you directly to the many titles listed, but this listing is an alphabetical mix of novels, several individual short stories and several volumes of collected short stories--but there is no indication as to which is which. With regard to the short story collections, the TOC only lists and leads you to the book titles, not to specific short stories within any of these books. Nor are these specific short story titles listed anywhere so can know what they are to search and locate them. For what it lists, the TOC works fine, but overall it is rather primitive. Another minor nuisance for those who wish to arrange their Kindle books alphabetically by author is that this will appear under "Wilkie" rather than "Collins." Nevertheless, all of Collins' novels EXCEPT "The Dead Secret" are included as well as (it seems) a great many short stories. So this set does offer a LOT of content for a very low price, but access to some of it can be difficult.After a year with this set, I replaced it with the Delphi Complete Wilkie Collins Collection (for $2.99) because it offers more content, and specific short stories are much more readily accessible. For the occasional reader of Collins, or one who wishes to "try" him, or one for whom price is an issue, the H&H set is quite okay, but true fans of Wilkie Collins will probably prefer the Delphi set. [In the Kindle store searchbox type "Delphi Collins" to learn more about that set.] Whichever edition of Collins you choose to read, be prepared for some highly entertaining, Victorian thrills.
- Published on Amazon.com Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase The Kindle version if this huge book is a small percentage of the price of a hard or soft cover copy. And in spite of its bulk, it doesn't weigh any more than my Kindle. Thank you.