The complete online text of The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins.

The English author William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) wrote intricately plotted novels of sensational intrigue which helped establish the conventions of modern detective fiction. Wilkie Collins was born in London on Jan. 8, 1824, the son of a successful...

"Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait." This adage of Wilkie Collins epitomizes his success as the leading sensation novelist of Victorian England. Combining expert plotting with carefully described settings, Collins's novels define the excitement...

Although best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)—which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English detective story—Wilkie Collins made contributions more substantial tha...

BRUCE BERESFORD goes from extreme heat to extreme cold, and from strength to strength. Close on the heels of Mr. Johnson, based on Joyce Cary's novel and made in remotest Africa under unusual rigors, comes Black Robe, shot in the wilds of freezing...

A fiercely realistic drama of frontier Quebec, "Black Robe" mucks about where the new age western "Dances With Wolves" dared not put its pretty paw. In this portrait of 17th-century Canada, there is nothing much to indicate the presence of 20th-century filmmakers - no...

Judiciary: To green extremists' glee, global warming has joined the long list of issues on which the Supreme Court says courts -- not the people's elected leaders -- know best. To which we ask: Why not just let the black-robed tyrants decide everything? The environmentalist...

Judiciary: When a judge in Iowa, of all places, unilaterally legalizes same-sex marriage, you know those wearing the black robes are out of control. Appointing judges who judge, not legislate, has never been so important.On Aug. 30, Robert B. Hanson, a district court judge in...