Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Poor Miss Finch
Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Frozen Deep; and Other Stories
Author: Wilkie CollinsThe King of Inventors
Author: Catherine PetersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous Woman in White and The Moonstone. An intimate of Dickens and of the Pre-Raphaelites Holman Hunt and Millais, Collins was called the "king of inventors" by his publisher. On the surface, he was charming, unpretentious, and extremely good company, beloved by men and women. Beneath this façade, however, he was a complex and haunted man, addicted to laudanum, and his powerful, often violent novels revealed a dark side of Victorian life. He supported two common-law wives and their children, and as Peters shows, he provoked scandal by refusing to cloak his complicated love affairs in the customary hypocritical pretense of the period. Having discovered a hitherto unknown autobiography by Wilkie Collins's mother, Peters draws on this document and on thousands of Collins's unpublished letters to create this provocative picture of his life and times. She describes in detail the saga of his exhausting struggle for better copyright protection for authors, especially for English authors in the United States. She has also studied the manuscripts of his novels, plays, and stories, including those which he did not complete, finding that some of his neglected novels turn out to be much more interesting than most readers realize today. This edition of the book has been supplemented to include an appendix describing Collins's "Tahitian" novel. Written when he was twenty, the manuscript of this work, Ioláni, was thought to have disappeared, but it has recently been rediscovered and sold to a private collector. For any Collins enthusiast, or for anyone interested in the literary history of the Victorian period, The King of Inventors provides a vivid account of Collins's unusual personal life in the context of his literary and artistic friendships and of newly revealed facts about the two women with whom he shared his "double life." Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1972
Book Description
A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales by [William] Wilkie Collins
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Author: Wilkie CollinsArmadale by Wilkie Collins
Author: The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 4
Author: Andrew GassonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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.
The Evil Genius
Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Living Link
Author: James De MillePublisher: New York : Harper
ISBN:
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.