Rambles Beyond Railways

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 160977485X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot written by Wilkie Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868), Armadale (1866) and No Name (1862). His works were classified at the time as 'sensation novels', a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. His novel, No Name combined social commentary - the absurdity of the law as it applied to children of unmarried parents - with a densely-plotted revenge thriller. Amongst his other works are: Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854), After the Dark (1856), The Frozen Deep (1857), The Queen of Hearts (1859), Man and Wife (1870), The New Magdalen (1873), The Law and the Lady (1875), The Two Destinies (1876) and A Rogue's Life (1879).

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726933136
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways written by Wilkie Collins and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve gotta love those travel documentaries with celebrities awkwardly trying to make their interactions with locals seem impromptu and organic. Perhaps it’s best to let the writers express the escapism of travel. And why not leave travel writing to Wilkie Collins, the star of Victorian-era mystery and thriller novels? In "Rambles Beyond Railways", Collins exchanges his London ale for a Cornish pasty when he writes of his travels around Cornwall. While the Victorians were crazy about building railways, rail access didn’t extend to the whole of Cornwall. Instead, Collins goes by foot across Cornwall with his friend, Henry Brandling, who provided illustrations for the original publication. True to his love of the sensational, Collins explores the enchanting Cornish locations whence stories of ghostly shipwrecks and semi-mythical kings originated. Get lost in Collins’s Cornwall instead of Jeremy Clarkson’s ill-fitting jeans. London-born Wilke Collins (1824-1889) became known in Victorian England for his novels and plays, sometimes writing together with Charles Dickens. His most famous works, "The Woman in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868), are examples of the first modern detective novels.

Author : Wilkie collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427060355
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by Wilkie collins and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2020 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534738959
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways (Annotated) written by Wilkie Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel book narrating Collins's 1850 walking tour of Cornwall with his artist friend, Henry Brandling. Published in 1851 and dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland. In those days 'even the railway stops short at Plymouth' and the travellers have to sail to their first destination at St Germains.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508617662
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways, the Original Publication (Large Print) written by Wilkie Collins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When any friend of yours or mine, in whose fortunes we take an interest, is about to start on his travels, we smooth his way for him as well as we can, by giving him a letter of introduction to such connexions of ours as he may find on his line of route. We bespeak their favourable consideration for him by setting forth his good qualities in the best light possible; and then leave him to make his own way by his own merit—satisfied that we have done enough in procuring him a welcome under our friend's roof, and giving him at the outset a claim to our friend's estimation.Will you allow me, reader (if our previous acquaintance authorizes me to take such a liberty), to follow the custom to which I have just adverted; and to introduce to your notice this Book, as a friend of mine setting forth on his travels, in whose well-being I feel a very lively interest. He is neither so bulky nor so distinguished a person as some of the predecessors of his race, who may have sought your attention in years gone by, under the name of "Quarto," and in magnificent clothing of Morocco and Gold. All that I can say for his outside is, that I have made it as neat as I can—having had him properly thumped into wearing his present coat of decent cloth, by the most competent book-tailor I could find. As for his intrinsic claims to your kindness, he has only two that I shall venture to advocate. In the first place he is able to tell you something about a part of your own country which is still too rarely visited and too little known. He will speak to you of one of the remotest and most interesting corners of our old English soil. He will tell you of the grand and varied scenery; the mighty Druid relics; the quaint legends; the deep, dark mines; the venerable remains of early Christianity; and the pleasant primitive population of the county of Cornwall. You will inquire, can we believe him in all that he says? This brings me at once to his second qualification—he invariably speaks the truth. If he describes scenery to you, it is scenery that he saw and noted on the spot; and if he adds some little sketches of character, I answer for him, on my own responsibility, that they are sketches drawn from the life.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Longwood PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780907746058
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways written by Wilkie Collins and published by Longwood PressLtd. This book was released on 1982 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976336768
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways written by Wilkie Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many popular nineteenth-century writers published travelogues and essay collections recounting their journeys at home and abroad, but few pulled off this feat with the polish and panache that beloved novelist Wilkie Collins brings to the task. Rambles Beyond Railways recounts a walking tour of Cornwall that Collins and a friend took together, and the vivid writing and charming observations are served up in the author's inimitably warm and engaging style.

Author : Collins Wilkie
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318964734
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambles Beyond Railways; Or, Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot written by Collins Wilkie and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 142706041X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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