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Wilkie Collins: The Complete Shorter Fiction

por Wilkie Collins

Outros autores: Julian Thompson (Editor)

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"William 'Wilkie' Collins, author of the perennial favourites The Moonstone and The Woman in White, friend and adviser to Charles Dickens and acclaimed as the grandfather of the modern detective story, was one of the nineteenth century's most popular authors. Indeed, Dickens described him as 'the writer who would come ahead of all the field'." "He was born in London in 1824, the son of a landscape painter. After a private education and two years in Italy, he trained in the law and began to practise in 1851. However he also became friends with Charles Dickens and quickly swapped his legal wig for the quill pen of literature. He became probably the first writer in English fiction to deal with the business of crime and detection, and as a result achieved great popularity in his lifetime." "Many of his novels were published in Dickens' periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round including The Woman in White and The Moonstone. In his shorter fiction, Collins retains all the skill and energy of his novels. He had a mastery of plot that even Dickens admired, and all the delicacy in drawing character that one associates with this fertile period of literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (mais)
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Too many stories in this looking book to comment on them all, so I will only remark on the ones that I rated 3 ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
This is a collection of the short stories of Wilkie Collins, most of which made their initial appearance in magazines of the day and quite a few haven't been seen since. Many of the stories that appealed to 19th century readers seem maudlin, predictable and tiresome to modern tastes. The unbelievable gothic nature and contrived plots are just too far-fetched. However, a number have stood the test of time and just with a change of time and place could happen now. The Black Cottage tells the story of young woman left alone in a remote house and two ne'er do wells who sought to take advantage of the situation. A Plot in Private Life tells of a wealthy young widow who succumbs to the charms of a scheming bigamist. The Biter Bit is the take down of a cocksure young detective who thinks he knows everything and fumbles a case even though the evidence was right under his nose. As a whole they are charming stories and would make an excellent mystery series for the BBC or PBS. ( )
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"William 'Wilkie' Collins, author of the perennial favourites The Moonstone and The Woman in White, friend and adviser to Charles Dickens and acclaimed as the grandfather of the modern detective story, was one of the nineteenth century's most popular authors. Indeed, Dickens described him as 'the writer who would come ahead of all the field'." "He was born in London in 1824, the son of a landscape painter. After a private education and two years in Italy, he trained in the law and began to practise in 1851. However he also became friends with Charles Dickens and quickly swapped his legal wig for the quill pen of literature. He became probably the first writer in English fiction to deal with the business of crime and detection, and as a result achieved great popularity in his lifetime." "Many of his novels were published in Dickens' periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round including The Woman in White and The Moonstone. In his shorter fiction, Collins retains all the skill and energy of his novels. He had a mastery of plot that even Dickens admired, and all the delicacy in drawing character that one associates with this fertile period of literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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