The Dead Secret: A Novel
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About This Book
Having previously tried my hand at short serial stories (collected and reprinted in After Dark, and The Queen of Hearts), I ventured on my first attempt, in this book, to produce a sustained work of fiction, intended for periodical publication during many successive weeks. The experiment proved successful both in this country and in America. Two of the characters which appear in these pages -- "Rosamond," and "Uncle Joseph" -- had the good fortune to find friends everywhere who took a hearty liking to them. A more elaborately drawn personage in the story -- "Sarah Leeson" -- was, I think, less generally understood. The idea of tracing, in this character, the influence of a heavy responsibility on a naturally timid woman, whose mind was neither strong enough to bear it, nor bold enough to drop it altogether, was a favorite idea with me, at the time, and is so much a favorite still, that I privately give "Sarah Leeson" the place of honor in the little portrait-gallery which my story contains. Perhaps, in saying this, I am only acknowledging, in other words, that the parents of literary families share the well-known inconsistencies of parents in general, and are sometimes unreasonably fond of the child who has always given them the most trouble. -- Wilkie Collins, _January, 1861_
36
Chapters
~432 min
Est. Listening Time
English
Language
3.7 ★
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Chapters (36)
- THE DEAD SECRET
- BOOK I.
- CHAPTER I. THE TWENTY-THIRD OF AUGUST, 1829.
- CHAPTER II. THE CHILD.
- CHAPTER III. THE HIDING OF THE SECRET.
- BOOK II.
- CHAPTER I. FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER.
- CHAPTER II. THE SALE OF PORTHGENNA TOWER.
- CHAPTER III. THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM.
- 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.
- BOOK IV.
- CHAPTER I. A PLOT AGAINST THE SECRET.
- CHAPTER II. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE.
- CHAPTER III. INSIDE THE HOUSE.
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