APPENDICES
With Dickens
These five items, contributed to Household Words
or All The Year Round, were written jointly with Charles Dickens
and it is generally impossible to separate the words Dickens wrote from those
written by Collins.
Links
Some of these links take you to the pages of James Rusk who has now completed his task of
transferring all of Wilkie's non-copyright novels
into electronic form, mainly from the Peter Fenelon Collier edition of The
Works of Wilkie Collins. Despite its title this
US edition published around 1895 is not quite the whole works of Collins,
omitting all his plays, most of his non-fiction, many of his short stories and
a couple of shorter novels. Nevertheless, it is the closest that exists to a
printed complete Works and transferring its 30 volumes into electronic form has
been a major service to the Collins community. James has also provided the text
of The Letters of Charles Dickens
to Wilkie Collins prepared by Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina
Hogarth and his literary agent A P Watt and published in 1892, together with
other letters from Dickens to Collins taken from The Letters of Charles Dickens published in 1880. James Rusk also e-texted Memoirs of the Life of William Collins,
Esq., R.A. which is now available exclusively on this site.
Daniel Stark runs the Deutsche Wilkie Collins Fanpage which has
some e-texts of German versions of Collins books. He also did the e-text of Rambles
Beyond Railways in English which is available in pdf and html versions and includes the illustrations.
Other useful pages are
those of Project Gutenberg which lists the texts it has available. Many
of James Rusk's e-texts are there as text or zip files rather than web pages.
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer
effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works. Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library.[1] Most of the items in its collection are the
full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting,
open formats that can be used on almost any computer. As of December 2007, Project Gutenberg claimed over 25,000 items
in its collection. Project Gutenberg is affiliated with many projects that are
independent organizations which share the same ideals, and have been given
permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark.
Wherever
possible, the releases are available in plain text, but other formats are included, such as HTML. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also
available. There are multiple affiliated projects that are providing additional
content, including regional and language-specific works. Project Gutenberg is
also closely affiliated with Distributed
Proofreaders, an
internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.
Not
yet e-texted
Most of Collins's plays and many of his non-fiction essays and writings are
currently unavailable as e-texts, but they are slowly being added. Most of his
letters are not available yet though they have been converted to e-text form
and electronic publication is planned.