Brief Lives Wilkie Collins

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 : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0385537409
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, two early masterpieces of mystery and detection. Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely nearsighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women—and avidly read by generations of readers. Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, "the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists," from Collins' childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame, and his lifelong friendship with that other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. In addition to his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone—often called the first true detective novel—and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works. Told with Ackroyd's inimitable verve, this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great storyteller, full of surprises, rich in humor and sympathetic understanding.

Author : Melisa Klimaszewski
Publisher : Brief Lives
ISBN 13 : 9781843919155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins written by Melisa Klimaszewski and published by Brief Lives. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, Melisa Klimaszewski situates the writer within his own milieu and shows how his work sparks new understandings of Victorian life and letters.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0099287471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins written by Peter Ackroyd and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, 'as if playing a certain part in the great general drama of life', Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women -- and avidly read by generations of readers. Ackroyd follows his hero, 'the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists', from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. A true Londoner, Collins, like Dickens, was fascinated by the secrets and crimes -- the fraud, blackmail and poisonings -- that lay hidden behind the city's respectable facade. He was a fighter, never afraid to point out injustices and shams , or to tackle the establishment head on. As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone -- often called the first true detective novel -- and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works. Collins had his own secrets: he never married, but lived for thirty years with the widowed Caroline Graves, and also had a second liaison, as 'Mr and Mrs Dawson', with a younger mistress, Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children. Both women remained devoted as illness and opium-taking took their toll: he died in 1889, in the middle of writing his last novel, Blind Love. Told with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable verve this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great story-teller, full of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486203077
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Terror and the Supernatural written by Wilkie Collins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve supernatural tales are accompanied by a discussion of Collins' life and literary achievements

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart and Science written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Aubrey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Brief Lives, Vol. 1 written by John Aubrey and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poor Miss Finch written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book No Name written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1537823701
Total Pages : 173 pages
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Download or read book The Haunted Hotel written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?