The Complete Works of Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. In The New Magdalen the adoptive daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is waiting for a profitable marriage. What hides her past? She lived in a shelter, dragged on a miserable existence and in a moment of desperation she appropriated other people"s documents, another"s life story. But the specter of the past breaks into a real life - a deceived miser requires an answer. Will the Princess have enough courage to turn into Cinderella, sacrificing love and wealth?