My Miscellanies by Wilkie Collins - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Wilkie Collins, Delphi Classics

• Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788771016
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

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Table of contents

• Title page
• WILKIE COLLINS
• COPYRIGHT
• Wilkie Collins: Parts Edition
• Parts Edition Contents
• My Miscellanies
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE.
• VOLUME I.
• SKETCHES OF CHARACTER. - I.
• SOCIAL GRIEVANCES. - I. A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING.
• Note the Second. Discovery of - Nothing.
• NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY.
• A QUEEN’S REVENGE.
• SOCIAL GRIEVANCES. - II. A PETITION TO THE NOVEL-WRITERS.
• FRAGMENTS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. - I. Laid up in lodgings.
• Chapter the Second. - My London Lodging.
• SKETCHES OF CHARACTER. - II. A SHOCKINGLY RUDE ARTICLE.
• NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY.
• THE GREAT (FORGOTTEN) INVASION.
• Preamble.
• I. Of the French Invasion as seen from Ilfracombe.
• II. Of the French Invasion as seen by Welshmen in general.
• III. Of One Welshman in Particular, and of what he saw.
• IV. Of what the Invaders did when they got on shore.
• V. Of the British Defence, and of the way in which the women contributed to it.
• VI. Of how it all ended.
• Moral.
• CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. - I. THE UNKNOWN PUBLIC.
• SOCIAL GRIEVANCES. - III. GIVE US ROOM!
• CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. - II. PORTRAIT OF AN AUTHOR, PAINTED BY HIS PUBLISHER.
• FRAGMENTS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. - II. MY BLACK MIRROR.
• SKETCHES OF CHARACTER. - III. MRS. BADGERY.
• VOLUME II.
• I. - Circumstances which preceded his Birth.
• II. - His Boyhood and Early Life.
• III. - His Career in Paris.
• IV. - His Exit from the Scene.
• SKETCHES OF CHARACTER. - IV. THE BACHELOR BEDROOM.
• NOOKS AND CORNERS OF HISTORY. III. A REMARKABLE REVOLUTION.
• Chapter I. The Pockets.
• Chapter II. The Arsenic.
• Chapter III. The Evidence.
• Chapter IV. The Sentence.
• Chapter V. Hushed-up.
• DRAMATIC GRUB STREET. EXPLORED IN TWO LETTERS.
• Letter the First. From Mr. Reader to Mr. Author.
• Letter the Second. From Mr. Author to Mr. Reader.
• TO THINK, OR BE THOUGHT FOR?
• SOCIAL GRIEVANCES. - IV. SAVE ME FROM MY FRIENDS.
• CASES WORTH LOOKING AT. - III. THE CAULDRON OF OIL.
• I. The Persons of the Drama.
• II. The Events of the Day.
• III. The Younger Brother.
• IV. The End.
• BOLD WORDS BY A BACHELOR.
• SOCIAL GRIEVANCES. - V. MRS. BULLWINKLE.
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