"Little Novels" by Wilkie Collins is a compilation of stories from the 1800s. This collection showcases the intricacies of people’s feelings and connections with each other, sometimes with an unsettling supernatural element. In the initial story, "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost," it presents Mr. Rayburn, a lonely man whose daughter, Lucy, meets a mysterious woman named Mrs. Zant, leading them to inspect the lines dividing what is real and what is not. The start of "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost" begins with Mr. Rayburn walking with his daughter through Kensington Gardens, when Lucy becomes frightened by a pale woman. The woman, Mrs. Zant, appears ill and experiences strange episodes. As Mr. Rayburn gets more involved with her, the story looks into ideas of compassion and the possible dangers of the situation as he tries to help Mrs. Zant, being surrounded by a mysterious presence.
Little Novels
By Wilkie Collins
When a widower and his daughter meet a troubled woman seemingly haunted by her past, they are pulled into a world where the supernatural blurs the line between reality and illusion.
Summary
About the AuthorWilliam Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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