Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987525892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.This volume includes:-The New Magdalen-Poor Miss Finch-The Dead Secret
Wilkie Collins Collection Volume 2 (3 Books)
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987525892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.This volume includes:-The New Magdalen-Poor Miss Finch-The Dead Secret
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781987525892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.This volume includes:-The New Magdalen-Poor Miss Finch-The Dead Secret
WILKIE COLLINS Collection Vol #2 (3 Books) the New Magdalen, Poor Miss Finch, the Dead Secret
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781986599368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781986599368
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.Collins published his best known works in the 1860s and achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health.
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 3
Author: Andrew Gasson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Poor Miss Finch (Volume 2 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: W. Collins
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427061653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427061653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Class List for English Prose Fiction
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Lower hall. Class list for English prose fiction
Author: Boston Mass, publ. libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Class List for English Prose Fiction, Including Translations and Juvenile Books, with Notes for Readers, Intended to Point Out for Parallel Reading the Historical Sources of Works of Fiction
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Nation
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.