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Deprived of her inheritance and even her name, Magdalen Vanstone sets out with frightening courage to reestablish her fortune and reputation. 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On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again.  As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff—with a face \"sharp as a hatchet\"—looks for the culprit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Collins's best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This superbly edited and richly documented edition of what T.S. Eliot described as ‘the first and greatest of English detective novels’ is the definitive and indispensible edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e.” — William Baker, Northern Illinois University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Wilkie Collins’s most popular and successful novels, has never been out of print since its first publication in 1868. Is another edition needed? The answer, in the case of Professor Farmer’s scholarly and impeccably edited text, must be a resounding yes. Invaluable for his survey of past and present reactions to the story, and for his own insights, the edition also includes historical and background material and a well-chosen collection of relevant contemporary documents—always an important feature of Broadview Literary Texts. This \u003cem\u003eMoonstone\u003c\/em\u003e will surely prove another winner for Broadview’s list.” — Catherine Peters, author of \u003cem\u003eThe King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Steve Farmer’s Broadview edition will undoubtedly become the definitive edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e. [It] deserves a five star rating.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Wilkie Collins Society Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here is a book which anyone with an interest in either Collins or Victorian literature in general will want to buy. The chief reason for this is Broadview’s exceptionally generous editorial policy in its series of Literary Texts, and the very good use that Steve Farmer has made of this generosity. In this edition, for a reasonable price, we are given not only a beautifully printed and error-free annotated text of the novel, but also a full introduction and over 150 pages of appendices. … This is the first time that Collins’ dramatic adaptation of the novel has been reprinted and this text alone is well worth the price of the book.” — Adrian J. Pinnington, Waseda University, \u003cem\u003eWilkie Collins Society Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Early Reviews of \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeraldine Jewsbury, \u003cem\u003eThe Athenaeum\u003c\/em\u003e (July 25, 1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e (July 25, 1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e (September 17, 1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (October 3, 1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eHarper’s New Monthly Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (October 1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLippincott’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (December 1868)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Excerpts from Newspaper Accounts of the Constance Kent\/Road-house Murder Case of 1860\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (July 3, 1860 to October 2, 1865)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Sommerset and Wilts Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (July 21, 1860)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Excerpts from \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e Accounts of the Major Murray\/Northumberland Street Case of 1861\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (July 13, 1861 to July 26, 1861)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Collins on Indians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e“A Sermon for Sepoys.” From Charles Dickens’s \u003cem\u003eHousehold Words: A Weekly Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (February 27, 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E: Letters by Collins Concerning \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e (the Novel and the Play)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix F: \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e (the Play)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix G: Reviews of the Olympic Theatre Performance of Collins’s \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (September 21, 1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated London News\u003c\/em\u003e (September 22, 1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Athenaeum\u003c\/em\u003e (September 22, 1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Spirit of the Times, New York\u003c\/em\u003e (October 6, 1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372328821079,"sku":"9781551112435","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551112435.jpg?v=1730162748"},{"product_id":"blind-love-9781551114477","title":"Blind Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlind Love\u003c\/em\u003e is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the “wild” Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish secret society, and becomes unhappily drawn into a conspiracy plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Broadview edition of \u003cem\u003eBlind Love\u003c\/em\u003e includes a critical introduction and primary source materials that address the novel’s focus on movements for Irish independence. Appendices include newspaper accounts of Ireland during the Land War and of the fraud case on which Collins based his story, articles reacting to Collins’s sudden death, \u003cem\u003ePunch\u003c\/em\u003e cartoons depicting the English attitudes toward the Irish, and contemporary reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This edition of Collins’s \u003cem\u003eBlind Love\u003c\/em\u003e offers the best of modern scholarship—it is impossible to praise it too much. Professors Bachman and Cox add considerably to Broadview’s series of reasonably-priced fine scholarly editions.” — A.D. Hutter, UCLA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHistorical Context: The Irish Question\u003cbr\u003eWilkie Collins’s Response to the Irish Question\u003cbr\u003eAnglo-Saxon vs. Celt: The Imperialist Agenda\u003cbr\u003eWilkie Collins and the “Woman Question”\u003cbr\u003eThe Von Scheurer Fraud\u003cbr\u003eBlind Love: The History and Evolution of the Text\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlind Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Reaction to the Death of Wilkie Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Death of Mr.Wilkie Collins,” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 24 September 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Late Mr.Wilkie Collins,” \u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated London News\u003c\/em\u003e, 28 September 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Obituary.Wilkie Collins,” \u003cem\u003eThe Academy\u003c\/em\u003e, 28 September 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Collins’s Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdmund Yates, “The Works of Wilkie Collins,” \u003cem\u003eTemple Bar\u003c\/em\u003e, August 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeredith White Thompson,“Wilkie Collins,” \u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e, 28 September 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Cotterell, “New Novels,” \u003cem\u003eThe Academy\u003c\/em\u003e, 15 March 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Blind Love,” \u003cem\u003eNew York Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, 23 January 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew Lang, “Mr. Wilkie Collins’s Novels,” \u003cem\u003eContemporary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, January 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarold Quilter, “In Memoriam Amici: Wilkie Collins,” \u003cem\u003eThe Universal Review\u003c\/em\u003e, 5, 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Horace Pym’s Notes on the Von Scheurer Case\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Newspaper Accounts of the Insurance Trial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Scheurer Frauds,” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 25 April 1888\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“France,” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 26 April 1888\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“France,” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 27 April 1888\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E: The Prologue to “Iris,” Manuscript “C,” 1887\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix F: Excerpts from Collins’s Plans for \u003cem\u003eBlind Love\u003c\/em\u003e: The Synopsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Cast of Characters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Synopsis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix G: The Irish Question\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccounts from \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, 1882\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Irish as Depicted in \u003cem\u003ePunch\u003c\/em\u003e, 1866, 1881, 1882\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix H: The Duties of the Lady’s Maid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372329640279,"sku":"9781551114477","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551114477.jpg?v=1730162752"},{"product_id":"the-woman-in-white-9781551116440","title":"The Woman in White","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the \"author of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e,\" for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher's eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinister accomplice, Count Fosco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition returns to the original text that galvanized England when it was published in serial form in \u003cem\u003eAll the Year Round\u003c\/em\u003e magazine in 1860. Three different prefaces Collins wrote for the novel, as well as two of his essays on the book's composition, are reprinted, along with nine illustrations. The appendices include contemporary reviews, along with essays on lunacy, asylums, mesmerism, and the rights of women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e. It has been prepared with great thoroughness by two editors well versed in Collins studies and give the earliest published version of Collins's text. It provides a lengthy introduction covering most of the important issues raised by the novel. The annotations have been carefully researched and the various appendices succeed in furnishing the reader with exactly the right sort of contextual and background matter to give a better understanding of the story.\" - Andrew Gasson, Chairman, Wilkie Collins Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To convey the sensationalism of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e, Bachman and Cox wisely choose the original, serialized version as their copy text. A thoughtful introduction places the novel in context, explaining its importance to sensation fiction, outlining its concern with the problem of identity and with constructions of madness, and discussing its narrative structure as well as its later stage adaptation. The appendices are especially useful, with their material on Victorian gender ideologies and Victorian psychology, including letters, articles, and reports illuminating the 'panic' over false incarceration for insanity.\" - Lillian Nayder, Bates College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology \u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Prefaces to the Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface, 1860, Sampson Low, Son \u0026amp; Co., Three-volume Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface to the Present Edition, 1861, Sampson Low, Son \u0026amp; Co., One-volume Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface. \u003cem\u003eLa Femme en Blanc\u003c\/em\u003e, 1861, trans. E.D. Forgues, J. Hetzel (Paris)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Sample Page from \u003cem\u003eAll the Year Round\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Commentary and Reviews of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Opinions of Charles Dickens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnsigned Review, \u003cem\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e (25 August 1860)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnsigned Review [E.S. Dallas], \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (30 October 1860)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Awful Apparition,” \u003cem\u003ePunch \u003c\/em\u003e(6 April 1861)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnsigned Review [Mrs. Oliphant], \u003cem\u003eBlackwood’s Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (May 1862)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdmund Yates, “Mr. Wilkie Collins in Gloucester Place,” in \u003cem\u003eCelebrities at Home\u003c\/em\u003e (1879)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilkie Collins, “How I Write My Books: Related in a Letter to a Friend,” \u003cem\u003eThe Globe\u003c\/em\u003e (26 November 1887)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eF.W. Waddy, “He Wrote ‘The Woman in White,’” \u003cem\u003eOnce a Week\u003c\/em\u003e (24 February 1872)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: The Woman Question\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom William Blackstone, \u003cem\u003eCommentaries on the Laws of England\u003c\/em\u003e (1765–69)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Sarah Stickney Ellis, \u003cem\u003eThe Women of England,Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits\u003c\/em\u003e (1839)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom John Ruskin, \u003cem\u003eSesame and Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e, 1865 (1907)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Caroline Norton, \u003cem\u003eA Letter to the Queen\u003c\/em\u003e (1855)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E: The Lunacy Panic of 1858 and the Mesmeric Mania of 1851\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Lady Bulwer Lytton,” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (19 July 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Commission of Lunacy,” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (27 July 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[Editorial], \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (28 July 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Tragedy of Acomb House,” \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e (1 August 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Mad-House System,” \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e (15 August 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Lunatic Asylums and the Lunacy Laws (By a Physician),” \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e (19 August 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Commission in Lunacy,” \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e (29 August 1858)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Law and Lunacy,” \u003cem\u003ePunch \u003c\/em\u003e(25 January 1862)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Mesmerism; Its Dangers and Curiosities,” \u003cem\u003ePunch \u003c\/em\u003e(24 February 1844)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnonymous, “Electro-biology,” \u003cem\u003eWestminster Review\u003c\/em\u003e (1851)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilkie Collins, “Magnetic Evenings At Home” (Letter I), \u003cem\u003eThe Leader\u003c\/em\u003e (17 January 1852)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372330787159,"sku":"9781551116440","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551116440.jpg?v=1730162755"},{"product_id":"the-dead-alive-9781554814336","title":"The Dead Alive","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents. As editor Anna Clarke observes, Collins' work is both a compelling legal sensation thriller and an important transatlantic commentary on American life. Along with the text itself and an illuminating introduction, Clarke provides a range of background materials-including documents from the real-life Boorn murder trial that inspired the novella-in order to set the work in its historical context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a timely re-examination of Wilkie Collins’s \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e. Anna Clark has situated Collins’s novella within its nineteenth-century context in terms of the Boorn murder trial, which inspired its plot, and other contemporary materials, including reviews and illustrations. The introduction provides a clear overview of Collins’s work, as well as of the text under consideration, which makes this volume useful for both scholars and students. This is a welcome and exciting addition to Broadview’s indispensable Victorian literature series.” — Joanne Ella Parsons, Falmouth University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wilkie Collins’s \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is an incredibly teachable novella, and Anna Clark’s introduction helpfully situates it within a range of historical contexts. This little-known text—advertised as Collins’s ‘first American story’ and based on an actual 1819 Vermont trial—is distinct within Collins’s oeuvre. The bold Naomi Colebrook prefigures Collins’s detective-heroine Valeria Woodville in \u003cem\u003eThe Law and the Lady\u003c\/em\u003e but is also depicted as a uniquely American heroine. The contextual material that Clark provides, including reviews and reports of the real-life trial, position \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e as a significant experiment in transatlantic, legal, and sensational writing.” — Tara MacDonald, University of Idaho\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Wilkie Collins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e in Context \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on the Text \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Context \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Boorn Murder Trial \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Leonard Sargent, \u003cem\u003eThe Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn, for the Murder of Russell Colvin, and the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Murdered\u003c\/em\u003e (1873) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eDocuments of the Assembly of the State of New York, Seventieth Session\u003c\/em\u003e, \"Report of the Select Committee on the Abolishment of Capital Punishment\" (5 March 1847)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Lemuel Haynes, \"The Prisoner Released. A Sermon delivered at Manchester, Vermont, Lord's Day, Man. 9th, 1820, on the remarkable interpositin of Divine Providence in the deliverance of Stephen and Jesse Boorn, who had been under sentence of death for the supposed murder of Russell Colvin.\" In \u003cem\u003eSketches of the Life and Character of Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M.\u003c\/em\u003e, by Timothy Mather Cooley (1837) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the American Character\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Alexis de Tocqueville, \"Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratc Nations,\" \u003cem\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/em\u003e, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (1841) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom Charles Dickens, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Notes\u003c\/em\u003e (1842) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerican Reviews \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \"The Dead Alive\" (Review), \u003cem\u003eCincinnati Daily Enquirer\u003c\/em\u003e (4 January 1874) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \"New Publications\" (Review of \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eChristian Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e (5 February 1874) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \"Literariana\" (Review of \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Graphic\u003c\/em\u003e (18 February 1874) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \"New Publications\" (Review of \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Christian Register\u003c\/em\u003e (21 February 1874)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \"Novels of the Week\" (Review of \u003cem\u003eThe Frozen Deep, and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Athenaeum \u003c\/em\u003e(21 November 1874) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvertising, Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Commercial Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e (3 January 1874) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrations from Shepard and Gill edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Alive\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372335538519,"sku":"9781554814336","price":17.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781554814336.jpg?v=1730162772"},{"product_id":"the-ghost-stories-of-wilkie-collins-9780712355964","title":"The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"British Library Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404065939799,"sku":"9780712355964","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780712355964.jpg?v=1730485326"},{"product_id":"the-woman-in-white-buch-audiocd-9783125001756","title":"The Woman in White. 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