The Sensation Novel

The lurid, gripping forerunner of the mystery — Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s tales of bigamy, madness, and hidden crime.

Secrets, scandal, and the Victorian thriller

In this collection

• Doctor Zhivago
• The Child Meditates
• Bloom
• The Great Keinplatz Experiment
• How Does a Tree Grow? Or, Botany for Young Australians
• The Great Siberian Railway
• The Wandering Jew
• The Fallacy of Success
• Night and Morning, Book V
• Tilly
• A Second Day in Mary Carrow's School
• Mercury and the Man Bitten by an Ant
• The Error of Impartiality
• The Missionary. Currer Bell
• Charles Herendeen
• Boats on the Lake
• The Humbugs of the World
• Seventoes' Ghost
• The Story of Fifine
• A Point of Law
• The Ravelled Sleave
• Aunt Anne, Volume 2
• A Waif's Progress
• May Darling, the Village Pride
• Mortlake: a Legend of Merton
• The Gray Wolf's Daughter

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