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The Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students. An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English... Read Full Overview

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions.

A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave.

From the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White comes another gripping Victorian sensation novel... Read Full Overview

He noiselessly led the way into the hall, followed by the servant on tip-toe.

"Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."

This is another Gothic tale by the author of the two seminal classics The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel is a book about mysterious happenings, ghost... Read Full Overview

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this was also... Read Full Overview

From the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White comes another gripping Victorian sensation novel. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave. When Countess... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

L'H tel hant est une sombre histoire de fant mes dans un h tel hant Venise, l' poque victorienne. Qui est vraiment la comtesse Narona ? Une veuve manipulatrice en apparence respectueuse des usages de la haute soci t victorienne ? Une intrigante pr te tout pour toucher... Read Full Overview

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer, best known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: hope that her good character might not really be deserved, that her noble letter was a skilful piece of hypocrisy--in short, that she secretly hated me, and was cunning enough to hide it. No! the lady had been her friend from her girlhood, was as familiar with her... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview