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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  

✵ 8. janvier 1824 – 23. septembre 1889   •   Autres noms ویلکی کالینز, വിൽക്കി കോളിൻസ്
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“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

“tenait, une vive clarté rejaillissait sur ses”

Le Secret

Wilkie Collins: Citations en anglais

“No man under Heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace — they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship — they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel.”

Wilkie Collins livre The Law and the Lady

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)

“A very remarkable work… in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells a story. It 's quite incredible, I know. Try the book. It has another extraordinary merit, it isn't written by a woman.”

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”

Wilkie Collins livre The Law and the Lady

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)

“Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.”

Wilkie Collins livre The Moonstone

[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)

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