My Miscellanies

by Wilkie Collins

 

Preface


Cases Worth Looking At

1-Memoirs of an Adopted Son

2-The Poisoned Meal

3-The Caldron of Oil


Nooks and Corners of History

1-A Queen's Revenge

2-The Great (Forgotten) Invasion

3-A Remarkable Revolution


Sketches of Character

1-Talk-Stoppers

2-A Shockingly Rude Article

3-Mrs. Badgery

4-The Bachelor Bedroom

5-Pray Employ Major Namby

6-My Spinsters


Social Grievances

1-A Journey in Search of Nothing

2-A Petition to the Novel-Writers

3-Give Us Room!

4-Save Me from My Friends

5-Mrs. Bullwinkle


Fragments Of Personal Experience

1-Laid Up In Lodgings

2-My Black Mirror


Curiosities Of Literature

1-The Unknown Public

2-Portrait of an Author


Other Pieces

1-Dramatic Grub Street

2-Bold Words by a Bachelor

3-To Think, or Be Thought For

4-Douglas Jerrold


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