A Rogues Life Houshold Words

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 872693308X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rogue's Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever come across the word "rogue" before, chances are you have either been playing video games, perused old X-Men comics or have overheard it as part of your aunt's vocabulary, while she was being cajoled over the phone by that slick, dapper mediterranean gentleman she met on her holiday in Barcelona. Shockingly, and somewhat regrettably, Wilkie Collins is less romantically inclined and resorts to using the word in its traditional sense of "a proper scoundrel". With character names such as "Frank Softly" and "Dr. Dulcifer", you would be forgiven for thinking that this story is a comedy (or a piece of pornography) but not quite so, although it does contain humorous elements. Frank Softly is unsuccessful in his career choices but manages to fall in love with the good doctor's daughter. Continuing his streak of questionable luck, Frank's new father-in-law turns out to be a professional fraudster – a business in which our happy-go-lucky protagonist unwillingly finds himself entangled, becoming the eponymous "rogue". A moment whose modern equivalent would be the point in the comic book movie where somebody says the film's title aloud. An uplifting tale of thwarted ambition and clandestine love, "A Rogue's Life" is a short novel originally published in "Household Words" in 1856 and in book form in 1879. Novelist, playwright, genre pioneer, opium addict, mentee of Charles Dickens, magnificently bearded individual – Englishman Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) has many titles to his name. Having a knack for mystery and unconventional characters, Collins' biggest contribution to world literature comes in the forms of "A Women in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868), with the former being mentioned on his headstone while the latter is widely considered the first modern detective novel.

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Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book Household Words : written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rogue's Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1903 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Words written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 177556102X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rogue's Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming and intelligent but somewhat lacking in the purpose and dedication departments, protagonist Frank Softly just can't seem to find a profession that suits him, much to the chagrin of his family. Still, his journey to find himself is full of entertaining adventures and misadventures. Modern-day readers will find a lot to love in Wilkie Collins' A Rogue's Life.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447480678
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rogue's Life - From His Birth to His Marriage written by Wilkie Collins and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1894, this book contains the classic novel 'A Rogue's Life - From Birth to His Marriage', by the well-known author Wilkie Collins, and will make a lovely addition to the bookshelf of anyone that's a fan of his work.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198819390
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?A celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa household servant, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, adying medical manvibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves.One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more, not less inexplicable. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive, moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of thetruth. Entranced with double lives, with men and women who only know part of the story, Collins weaves their narratives into a web of suspense. The Moonstone is a text that grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191593354
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant `Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Melisa Klimaszewski
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780940068
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins written by Melisa Klimaszewski and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the first detective novel in English, Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular authors in Victorian England. In this illuminating biography, Melisa Klimaszewski situates the writer within his own milieu and demonstrates how his work sparks new understandings of Victorian life and letters. A close friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens, Collins secured his own fame with sensational novels that feature intricate legal plots, mistaken identities, and complex crimes. Boldly challenging the mores of Victorian society by maintaining two families and shunning the institution of marriage, Collins was also one of the most unconventional public figures of his day. His life story, succinctly told in this elegant biography, promises to instruct and to entertain.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019870321X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jezebel's Daughter written by Wilkie Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like your mysteries with a liberal dash of prurient gossip and high-society drama, be sure to add Wilkie Collins' Jezebel's Daughter to your must-read list. This tautly suspenseful tale full of betrayal and unexpected plot twists is a worthy diversion.