Wilkie Collins bibliography: Difference between revisions

This is a bibliography of the works of Wilkie Collins.

Novels

Short fiction

• Mr Wray’s Cash Box, or the Mask and the Mystery. A Christmas Sketch (1852)
• The Ostler (1855)
• After Dark (1856)
  The stories are linked by a new narrative called Leaves from Leah’s Diary and given Chaucerian supplementary titles (shown after the date).
  • A Terribly Strange Bed (1852) “The Traveller’s Story”
  • A Stolen Letter (1854) “The Lawyer’s Story”
  • Sister Rose (1855) “The French Governess’s Story”
  • The Lady of Glenwith Grange (1856) “The Angler’s Story”
  • Gabriel’s Marriage (1853) “The Nun’s Story”
  • The Yellow Mask (1855) “The Professor’s Story”
• A House to Let (1858)
  A novella co-written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter.
• The Haunted House (1859)
  A sequence of short stories co-written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Proctor, George Sala and Hesba Stretton.
• The Queen of Hearts (1859)
  Repeating the device used in After Dark, the short stories in this collection are embedded in a linking narrative so elaborate that the work is identified in some editions as a novel.
  • The Black Cottage (1857)
  • The Family Secret (1857)
  • The Dream-Woman (1855)
  • Mad Monkton (1855)
  • The Dead Hand (1857)
  • The Biter Bit (1858)
  • The Parson’s Scruple (1859)
  • A Plot in Private Life (1858)
  • Fauntleroy (1858)
  • Anne Rodway (1856)
• Miss or Mrs? (1873)
  The novella Miss or Mrs? was originally followed by two short stories; A Mad Marriage is added in some later editions.
  • Miss or Mrs?
  • Blow up with the Brig!
  • The Fatal Cradle
  • A Mad Marriage
• The Frozen Deep and Other Stories (1874)
• My Lady’s Money (1879)
• Who Killed Zebedee? (1881)
• The Ghost’s Touch and Other Stories (1885)
• Little Novels (1887)
  Each short story in this collection of previously published pieces is given a new, formulaic title. Here are the original titles followed by the Little Novels titles, which have not gained universal acceptance:
  • The Ghost’s Touch = Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
  • How I Married Him = Miss Morris and the Stranger
  • Your Money or Your Life = Mr. Cosway and the Landlady
  • Royal Love = Mr. Medhurst and the Princess
  • She Loves and Lies = Mr. Lismore and the Widow
  • The Clergyman’s Confession = Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman
  • A Shocking Story = Miss Mina and the Groom
  • The Girl at the Gate = Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper
  • The Captain’s Last Love = Mr. Captain and the Nymph
  • The Mystery of Marmaduke = Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister
  • Percy and the Prophet = Mr. Percy and the Prophet
  • The Duel in Herne Wood = Miss Bertha and the Yankee
  • An Old Maid’s Husband = Miss Dulane and My Lord
  • Who Killed Zebedee? = Mr. Policeman and the Cook
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. No Thoroughfare. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1890)
  Three collaborations with Charles Dickens from Household Words; first reissue in this particular configuration.

Non-fiction

• Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. (1848)
• Rambles Beyond Railways, or, Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot (1851)
  With illustrations by Henry C. Brandling.
• My Miscellanies (1863)

Plays

Films based on his novels

• Basil (UK 1998)
• The Woman in White (UK 1997)
• The Moonstone (UK 1996)
• Zhenshchina v belom (The Woman In White, Russia 1982)
• The Woman in White (UK, TV, 5 episodes, 1982)
• La donna in bianco (Italy, TV, 1980)
• Lucilla (Poor Miss Finch, Germany, 1979, 2 episodes, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth)
• Der Monddiamant [de] (The Moonstone, Germany 1974, 2 episodes, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth)
• Great Mysteries (1 Episode: A Terribly Strange Bed, US 1973)
• Der rote Schal (Armadale, 3 episodes, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth)
• La pietra di luna (The Moonstone, Italy 1972)
• The Moonstone (UK, 5 episodes, 1972)
• Die Frau in Weiß (The Woman in White, 3 episodes, Germany 1971, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth)
• The Policeman and the Cook (US 1970)
• La femme en blanc (The Woman in White, France 1970)
• La dama vestida de blanco (The Woman in White, Spain 1967)
• The Woman in White (UK, 6 episodes, 1966)
• A Terribly Strange Bed (US 1991)
• Dow Hour of Great Mysteries: The Woman in White (US 1960)
• The Moonstone (UK, 7 episodes, 1959)
• Hour of Mystery: The Woman in White (UK 1957)
• Sergeant Cuff kann den Mondstein nicht finden (The Moonstone, Germany 1955)
• Suspense: The Moonstone (US 1954)
• Tales Of Adventure: The Moonstone (US 1952, 5 episodes)
• Robert Montgomery Presents: The Moonstone (US 1952)
• The Woman in White (US 1948)
• Crimes at the Dark House (based on The Woman in White, US 1940)
• The Moonstone (1934)
• The Woman in White (1929)
• She Loves and Lies (1920)
• The Twin Pawns (1919)
• The Woman in White (1917)
• Tangled Lives (1917)
• The Moonstone (1915)
• The Quest of the Sacred Jewel (1914)
• The New Magdalen (1914
• The Dream Woman (1914)
• The New Magdalen (1912)
• The Woman in White (1912)
• The New Magdalene (1910)

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