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Dedication
2:38
Chapter I - Ourselves
11:48
Chapter II - Our Dilemma, part 1
14:38
Chapter II - Our Dilemma, part 2
24:05
Chapter III - Our Queen of Hearts
14:50
Chapter IV - Our Grand Project, part 1
14:17
Chapter IV - Our Grand Project, part 2
22:58
Chapter IV - Our Grand Project, part 3
18:48
Chapter IV - Our Grand Project, part 4
23:03
Brother Griffith's Story of the Family Secret - Chapter I
18:43
Brother Griffith's Story of the Family Secret - Chapter II
12:29
Brother Griffith's Story of the Family Secret - Chapter III
18:37
Brother Morgan's Story of the Dream-Woman - Chapter I
6:44
Brother Morgan's Story of the Dream-Woman - Chapter II
16:24
Brother Morgan's Story of the Dream-Woman - Chapter III
18:53
Brother Morgan's Story of the Dream-Woman - Chapter IV
22:15
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter I
14:34
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter II
17:52
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter III
20:39
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter IV
30:10
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter V
39:19
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter VI, part 1
29:38
Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter VI, part 2
18:20
Brother Morgan's Story of the Dead Hand, part 1
27:39
Brother Morgan's Story of the Dead Hand, part 2
31:45
Brother Griffith's Story of the Bitter Bit, part 1
20:23
Brother Griffith's Story of the Bitter Bit, part 2
32:13
Brother Griffith's Story of the Bitter Bit, part 3
19:00
Brother Owen's Story of the Parson's Scruple - Chapter I
21:11
Brother Owen's Story of the Parson's Scruple - Chapter II
40:55
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter I
31:31
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter II
23:20
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter III
18:14
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter IV
12:58
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter V
24:35
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter VI, part 1
12:38
Brother Griffith's Story of a Plot in Private Life - Chapter VI, part 2
23:48
Brother Morgan's Story of Fauntleroy - Chapter I
12:21
Brother Morgan's Story of Fauntleroy - Chapter II
40:32
Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway, part 1
57:30
Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway, part 2
30:17
Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway, part 3
15:35
Brother Owen's Story of Anne Rodway, part 4
19:02

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About this book

Three retired brothers share The Glen Tower, a remote house in the hills of South Wales, when a lively young guest unsettles their quiet household. Griffith, the youngest, introduces his brothers through the work that shaped them: Owen served a London parish, while Morgan practised medicine. Griffith's own account moves from literary ambitions to a legal career, marriage and bereavement. These personal histories give the opening its mixture of affectionate humour and grief.

Wilkie Collins builds a collection of stories within this family setting, arranging the tales across ten days and assigning them to the different brothers. Family secrets, troubled dreams and mysteries appear among the contents. In one tense passage, a man at an inn struggles with his fear of a body concealed behind bed curtains as his candle burns low. The book offers readers both the companionship of its narrating household and close attention to the way imagination turns an ordinary room into a source of dread.

About the author

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.