“Demandez-vous s´il y a une explication au mystere de la vie et de la mort”
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
William Wilkie Collins est un écrivain britannique de l'époque victorienne, contemporain et ami de Charles Dickens. Très populaire de son vivant, il est l'auteur de 27 romans, plus de 50 nouvelles, au moins 15 pièces de théâtre et plus de 100 essais. Wikipedia
“Demandez-vous s´il y a une explication au mystere de la vie et de la mort”
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
Vol. I [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=wUN2KP79lhUC&pg=PA194)
Also in The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction edited by Andrew Mangham [Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 1-107-51169-0] ( p. 82 https://books.google.com/books?id=rQZCAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82)
The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters [Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 1-400-86345-7] ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224)
Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann by Sara Lennox [University of Massachusetts Press, 2006, ISBN 1-558-49552-5] ( p. 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=_9VjDtk5ss4C&pg=PA227)
The Law and the Lady (1875)
The Works of Wilkie Collins: The Black Robe [P.F. Collier, 1900] (p. 328)
Also in Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life by Graham Law & Andrew Maunder [Springer, 2008, ISBN 0-230-22750-3] ( p. 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=kKyHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&f=false)
“The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason”
Vol. I [Chatto & Windus, 1875] ( p. v https://books.google.com/books?id=_w83AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR5)
Also in Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock by Eleanor Salotto [Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-137-11770-2] ( p. 32 https://books.google.com/books?id=recYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA32)
The Law and the Lady (1875)
“Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.”
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice [Rose-Belford, 1878] ( p.288 https://books.google.com/books?id=zyFjcZUO3CUC&pg=PA288)
Also in The Supernatural And English fiction by Glen Cavaliero [Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-192-12607-5] (p. 39)
[Street, 1868] ( p. 50 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA50)
Also in Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England by Albert D. Pionke [Ohio State University Press, 2004, 0-814-20948-3] ( p. 98 https://books.google.com/books?id=OH6ml-qUK7sC&pg=PA98)
The Moonstone (1868)