This is the most comprehensive work ever published on the life, work, and influences of Wilkie Collins. Interest in Collins has increased over recent years as his novels have gained popularity and his central role in 19th-century fiction, as a collaborator with writers such as Dickens and the father of the detective novel, has been recognized. The Guide is much more accessible than a biography: entries are arranged alphabetically and fully cross-referenced, and the text is complemented by over 200 illustrations, many of them never before published. Special attention is paid to bibliographical and publishing details.
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Andrew Gasson has been a serious collector of Collins material for the last 20 years, and is co-founder and secretary of the Wilkie Collins Society. He has published several articles on Collins.
Catherine Peters is a former Lecturer in English at Somerville College, Oxford, now retired, and an expert in 19th-century fiction.
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Wilkie Collins is one of my favorite authors. I feel his books are sadly neglected by the mystery community. He wrote so much in his short life, and his life was as dramatic as his books. This book in an easy to read biography of a complex writer. I have read at least 3 biography's of Mr. Collins, and this is one of the best. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens were very good friends, Collin's brother married one of Dickens daughters. Dickens is still read today, and I wish more people would discover the brilliant writing of Wilkie!
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The true villain of The Moonstone, originally conceived by Collins as a clergyman, but modified to a hypocritical philanthropist, the darling of pious old ladies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cream endpapers, yellow endpapers, spine lettered, windus edition, musical dedications, first book publication, yellow mask, reading tour, two destinies, blind love Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, All the Year Round, The Frozen Deep, Charles Dickens, Sampson Low, Gloucester Place, Little Novels, The New Magdalen, After Dark, The Haunted Hotel, Poor Miss Finch, Miss Gwilt, The Evil Genius, Charles Collins, Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Rogue's Life, The Fallen Leaves, The Queen of Hearts, Royal Academy, Seaside Library, Gad's Hill, Temple Bar, The Two Destinies, World's Classics, Bentley's Miscellany New!
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The true villain of The Moonstone, originally conceived by Collins as a clergyman, but modified to a hypocritical philanthropist, the darling of pious old ladies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cream endpapers, yellow endpapers, spine lettered, windus edition, musical dedications, first book publication, yellow mask, reading tour, two destinies, blind love Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, All the Year Round, The Frozen Deep, Charles Dickens, Sampson Low, Gloucester Place, Little Novels, The New Magdalen, After Dark, The Haunted Hotel, Poor Miss Finch, Miss Gwilt, The Evil Genius, Charles Collins, Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Rogue's Life, The Fallen Leaves, The Queen of Hearts, Royal Academy, Seaside Library, Gad's Hill, Temple Bar, The Two Destinies, World's Classics, Bentley's Miscellany New!
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- The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics) by William Wilkie Collins on 74 pages
- Heart and Science (Pocket Classics S) by Wilkie Collins on 19 pages
- Man and Wife (The World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins on 18 pages
- Hide and Seek (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins on 17 pages
- The Law and the Lady (Penguin Classics) by Wilkie Collins on 15 pages
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- Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship by Lillian Nayder on page 20
- Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Ann Gaylin in Back Matter
- Armadale (Oxford World's Classics) by W. Wilkie Collins in Front Matter
- Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature) by William Baker in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jenny Bourne Taylor on page 110
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