Peter Ackroyd

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Wilkie Collins: A Brief LifeHardcover, 6 October 2015

Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life
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Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Date Published
6 Oct 2015
ISBN-10
0385537395
ISBN-13
9780385537391

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Peter Ackroyd
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
6 October 2015
Dimensions:
18.03 x 12.7 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
19th Century
ISBN-10:
0385537395
ISBN-13:
9780385537391
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Weight:
362.87 gm

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