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Wilkie Collins. A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical ...
A mulher de branco. Capa dura – 24 junho 2021. Inspirado por diversos crimes que haviam chamado a atenção pública, em uma época de jornais sensacionalistas e de leitores que clamavam por escândalos, Wilkie Collins começou a escrever "A mulher de branco" em 15 de agosto de 1859. O leitor é transportado para a Inglaterra vitoriana ao ...
13 de abr. de 2016 · Wilkie Collins, the sensationalist author and inventor of the detective novel, knew precisely how to "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait”. Jason Hall , Victorian literature expert and editor of a new edition of Jezebel's Daughter , chooses the five best books from Collins's extensive oeuvre – and considers the voracious appetites and unorthodox lifestyle of this intriguing Englishman.
Wilkie Collins (Londen, 8 januari 1824 – aldaar, 23 september 1889) was een Britse schrijver en een tijdgenoot en vriend van Charles Dickens. Collins was een veelschrijver en publiceerde ook in Dickens' tijdschriften Household Words en All the Year Round .
Introduction. William Wilkie Collins, or Wilkie as he was known to his friends and readers, was born in London's Marylebone where he lived more or less continuously for 65 years. Today he is best known for The Moonstone (1868), often regarded as the first true detective novel, and The Woman in White (1860), the archetypal sensation novel.
Biografía de Wilkie Collins. Escritor y dramaturgo británico, Wilkie Collins es uno de los autores cuya obra es todo un precedente para el género policiaco, dotada además de atributos rayanos en lo fantástico. Nació el 8 de enero de 1824 en Londres en el seno de una familia de artistas, siendo su padre el reconocido paisajista y ...
The Wilkie Collins Society was founded in 1980 to promote interest in the life and works of this important nineteenth-century writer. His best known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone. But Wilkie Collins wrote more than twenty other novels and more than 60 short stories as well as 18 plays and numerous essays and pieces of journalism.
