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Title: After Dark
Author: Wilkie Collins
Release Date: February, 1999 [EBook #1626]
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AFTER DARK
by Wilkie Collins
Table of Contents
Preface To After Dark
Leaves From Leah's Diary
Prologue To The First Story
The Traveler's Story Of A Terribly Strange Bed
Prologue To The Second Story
The Lawyer's Story Of A Stolen Letter
Prologue To The Third Story
The French Governess's Story Of Sister Rose
Epilogue To The Third Story
Prologue To The Fourth Story
The Angler's Story Of The Lady Of Glenwith Grange
Prologue To The Fifth Story
The Nun's Story Of Gabriel's Marriage
Prologue To The Sixth Story
The Professor's Story Of The Yellow Mask
Last Leaves From Leah's Diary
PREFACE TO "AFTER DARK."
I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of
interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before.
The pages entitled "Leah's Diary" are, however, intended to fulfill another purpose besides that of serving as
the frame-work for my collection of tales. In this part of the book, and subsequently in the Prologues to the
stories, it has been my object to give the reader one more glimpse at that artist-life which circumstances have
afforded me peculiar opportunities of studying, and which I have already tried to represent, under another
aspect, in my fiction, "Hide-and-Seek." This time I wish to ask some sympathy for the joys and sorrows of a
poor traveling portrait-painter\u2014presented from his wife's point of view in "Leah's Diary," and supposed to be
briefly and simply narrated by himself in the Prologues to the stories. I have purposely kept these two portions
of the book within certain limits; only giving, in the one case, as much as the wife might naturally write in her
diary at intervals of household leisure; and, in the other, as much as a modest and sensible man would be
likely to say about himself and about the characters he met with in his wanderings. If I have been so fortunate
as to make my idea intelligible by this brief and simple mode of treatment, and if I have, at the same time,
achieved the necessary object of gathering several separate stories together as neatly-fitting parts of one
complete whole, I shall have succeeded in a design which I have for some time past been very anxious
creditably to fulfill.
Of the tales themselves, taken individually, I have only to say, by way of necessary explanation, that "The
Lady of Glenwith Grange" is now offered to the reader for the first time; and that the other stories have
appeared in the columns of Household Words. My best thanks are due to Mr. Charles Dickens for his kindness
in allowing me to set them in their present frame-work.
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