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After Dark

by Wilkie Collins

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  1. Preface to 'After Dark'

    4:01

  2. After Dark, part 1

    18:36

  3. After Dark, part 2

    17:14

  4. Prologue to the First Story

    23:56

  5. The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed, part 1

    18:46

  6. The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed, part 2

    28:31

  7. Prologue to the Second Story

    10:48

  8. The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter, part 1

    21:33

  9. The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter, part 2

    24:30

  10. Prologue to the Third Story

    21:43

  11. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part First, Chapter I, part 1

    35:54

  12. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part First, Chapter I, part 2

    19:40

  13. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part First, Chapter II

    6:24

  14. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Second, Chapter I

    30:04

  15. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Second, Chapter II

    20:59

  16. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Second, Chapter III, part 1

    16:46

  17. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Second, Chapter III, part 2

    20:07

  18. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Second, Chapter IV

    17:32

  19. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Second, Chapter V

    8:37

  20. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Third, Chapter I, part 1

    20:05

  21. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Third, Chapter I, part 2

    23:11

  22. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Third, Chapter II

    31:09

  23. The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, Part Third, Chapter III

    6:51

  24. Epilogue to the Third Story

    2:35

  25. Prologue to the Fourth Story

    17:11

  26. The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange, part 1

    27:16

  27. The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange, part 2

    34:29

  28. Prologue to the Fifth Story

    11:41

  29. The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, Chapter I

    32:25

  30. The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, Chapter II

    19:25

  31. The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, Chapter III

    11:28

  32. The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, Chapter IV, part 1

    19:00

  33. The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, Chapter IV, part 2

    19:17

  34. The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, Chapter V

    5:28

  35. Prologue to the Sixth Story

    17:36

  36. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part First, Chapter I

    22:06

  37. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part First, Chapter II

    21:21

  38. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part First, Chapter III

    15:55

  39. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Second, Chapter I

    18:32

  40. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Second, Chapter II

    11:59

  41. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Second, Chapter III

    17:21

  42. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter I

    20:03

  43. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter II

    15:24

  44. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter III

    25:41

  45. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter IV

    6:44

  46. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter V

    22:36

  47. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter VI

    26:20

  48. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter VII

    10:49

  49. The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask, Part Third, Chapter VIII

    11:50

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Leah's diary begins with a medical restriction that puts her family's income at risk. Her husband William Kerby, a traveling portrait painter, must rest his eyes for at least six months. She records the strain of paying debts, leaving comfortable lodgings and supporting their children while his work is interrupted. In Wilkie Collins's 1856 collection, these household concerns provide the frame for six tales, each introduced through its own prologue.

The storytellers range from a lawyer and a French governess to an angler, a nun and a professor. The passage from The Lady of Glenwith Grange introduces the Welwyn family, including Ida's education under her mother's care and the arrival of her younger sister Rosamond. Books, music, wealth and social ambition all enter this family history. Readers can explore how Collins links separate mystery stories with the practical worries of an artist's home and the personal histories of people encountered in his travels.

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Collins wrote The Woman in White for Dickens's magazine and then The Moonstone, which is usually called the first English detective novel and gave the form Sergeant Cuff, the country-house theft and the unreliable multiple narration.

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Book facts

First published
1856
Reading time
About 10 hours
Pages
275
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Warren Kati, acousticwave, Cynthia Brooks and others