The Dead Secret
by Wilkie Collins
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About this eBook
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
- Title
- The Dead Secret: A Novel
- Credits
- Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43092
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43092
- Release Date
- July 5, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DEAD SECRET
- 2.BOOK I. — CHAPTER I. THE TWENTY-THIRD OF AUGUST, 1829. — CHAPTER II. THE CHILD. — CHAPTER III. THE HIDING OF THE SECRET.
- 3.BOOK II. — CHAPTER I. FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER. — CHAPTER II. THE SALE OF PORTHGENNA TOWER. — CHAPTER III. THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM.
- 4.BOOK III. — CHAPTER I. TIMON OF LONDON. — CHAPTER II. WILL THEY COME? — CHAPTER III. MRS. JAZEPH. — CHAPTER IV. THE NEW NURSE. — CHAPTER V. A COUNCIL OF THREE. — CHAPTER VI. ANOTHER SURPRISE.
- 5.BOOK IV. — CHAPTER I. A PLOT AGAINST THE SECRET. — CHAPTER II. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE. — CHAPTER III. INSIDE THE HOUSE. — CHAPTER IV. MR. MUNDER ON THE SEAT OF JUDGMENT. — CHAPTER V. MOZART PLAYS FAREWELL.
- 6.BOOK V. — CHAPTER I. AN OLD FRIEND AND A NEW SCHEME. — CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. — CHAPTER III. APPROACHING THE PRECIPICE. — CHAPTER IV. STANDING ON THE BRINK. — CHAPTER V. THE MYRTLE ROOM. — CHAPTER VI. THE TELLING OF THE SECRET.
- 7.BOOK VI. — CHAPTER I. UNCLE JOSEPH. — CHAPTER II. WAITING AND HOPING. — CHAPTER III. THE STORY OF THE PAST. — CHAPTER IV. THE CLOSE OF DAY. — CHAPTER V. FORTY THOUSAND POUNDS. — CHAPTER VI. THE DAWN OF A NEW LIFE.
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