Little Novels

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Mrs. Zant and the Ghost I-VI
36:35
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost VII-XIV
34:00
Miss Morris and the Stranger Chapter I-IV
43:41
Miss Morris and the Stranger Chapter V-VII
23:14
Mr. Cosway and the Landlady. The First Epoch
22:21
Mr. Cosway and the Landlady. The Second to Fourth Epoch
37:38
Mr. Medhurst and the Princess Chapters I - V
27:31
Mr. Medhurst and the Princess Chapters VI - XI
33:23
Mr. Lismore and the Widow Chapters I - V
26:06
Mr. Lismore and the Widow Chapters VI - XI
20:55
Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman
49:14
Miss Mina and the Groom I - VII
37:15
Miss Mina and the Groom VIII - XI
41:44
Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper. First Epoch to Fourth Epoch
39:20
Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper. Fifth Epoch to Eighth Epoch
44:41
Mr. Captain and the Nymph
42:44
Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister Chapters I - V
23:24
Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister Chapter VI
28:15
Mr. Percy and the Prophet, Part I - The Prediction - Chapter 1 - 4
28:34
Mr. Percy and the Prophet, Part II - The Fulfillment - Chapter 5 - 8
39:23
Mr. Percy and the Prophet, Part II - The Fulfillment - Chapter 9 - 11
41:16
Miss Bertha and the Yankee No. 1
33:43
Miss Bertha and the Yankee No. 2 - 4
39:35
Miss Dulane and my Lord Part I & II
43:25
Miss Dulane and my Lord Part III & IV
24:25
Mr. Policeman and the Cook
43:11

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An April walk in Kensington Gardens turns unsettling when Mr. Rayburn and his young daughter Lucy encounter a distressed widow. Her strange gestures prompt Rayburn to follow her and ask at her lodgings about her welfare. The opening story, "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost," frames this daylight encounter as a case of contact with a spirit, leaving belief and doubt in tension.

Published in 1887, Wilkie Collins's collection brings together short fiction about nineteenth-century English social life. In another story, Lepel's recovery from bronchitis gives way to unexplained weakness. His friend Rothsay jokes about the housekeeper's interest in a new servant, drawing money and marriage into an apparently ordinary household conversation. These scenes show Collins moving between supernatural uncertainty, domestic humor and the anxiety of depending on other people. The collection offers readers varied situations in which familiar places and everyday relationships become difficult to interpret.

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Wilkie Collins

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.