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Books & documents
- Basil — Wilkie Collins Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The works of Wilkie Collins (1850) — Wilkie Collins Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Wilkie Collins Collection Volume 4 (2018) — Wilkie Collins Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Basil & Little Novels (1900) — Wilkie Collins Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Wilkie Collins and copyright (2013) — Sundeep Bisla Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Reality's dark light (2003) — Maria K. Bachman, Don Richard Cox Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Works (1899) — Wilkie Collins Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Great humorous stories (1987) — P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, H. F. Ellis, Frederic Raphael, Mark Twain, Keith Waterhouse, Barry Pain, Paul Theroux, Nathaniel Gubbins, James Herriot, Bret Harte, A. C. Games, Burdette, Robert J., Bob Larbey, Oscar Wilde, Seán Ó Faoláin, Jerome Klapka Jérôme, David Nobbs, Giovannino Guareschi, Dorothy Parker, Arnold Bennett, William Somerset Maugham, Stephen Leacock, Rob Buckman, Alasdair Gray, Joyce Grenfell, Art Buchwald, Saki, John Verney, Harry Secombe, John Wyndham, Jean Davis, Groucho Marx, Douglas Sutherland, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Iris Murdoch, Arthur Marshall, James Thurber, C. Northcote Parkinson, Douglas Adams, Mole, John, Rudyard Kipling, Fran Lebowitz, Peter Ustinov, Patrick Campbell, Phyllis Eleanor Bentley, O. Henry, Basil Boothroyd, Robert Robinson, Sue Townsend, Neil Boyd, Damon Runyon, George S. Kaufman, Max Apple, Gerald Malcolm Durrell, E. F. Benson, Auberon Waugh, David Niven, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Nancy Mitford, Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle, E. M. Delafield Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Anthology of Ghost Stories (1994) — Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Dalby Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- One-Hundred-and-One Read-Aloud Classics (1995) — Pamela Horn, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Astrid Lindgren, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jack London, Wilson Rawls, John Steinbeck, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C. S. Lewis, William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, E. B. White Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The second omnibus of crime (1932) — Dorothy L. Sayers Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A View of the Swamp (2020) — Christopher Lee Philips, Isaac Weld Jr., John Harriott, Auguste Levasseur, Thomas Moore, Harriet Martineau, Fredrika Bremer, George Robert Gleig, Charles Dickens, Francis Trollope Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Evil Image (1981) — Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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