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My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2)
| Author: | Wilkie Collins |
| Category: | English [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 05 Oct 2013 |
| Pages: | 185 |
| File Size: | 619.23 KB |
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| Creation Date: | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 853,623 No 1 most popular |
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Wilkie Collins
The Author Book My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) and the author of 63 another books.
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 critical and popular attention than he has received for 50 years. Most of his bo 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 critical and popular attention than he has received for 50 years. Most of his books are in print, and all are now in e-text. He is studied widely; new film, television, and radio versions of some of his books have been made; and all of his letters have been published. However, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction.
Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand.
In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practised. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, 'The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A'., to good reviews.
The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, 'The Woman in White' (1860), 'No Name' (1862), 'Armadale' (1866) and 'The Moonstone' (1868). 'The Moonstone', is seen by many as the first true detective novel T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels " in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe.
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Author: Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Title: My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Contents: Sketches of character: I. Talk-stoppers -- Social grievances: I. A journey in search of nothing -- Nooks and corners of history: I. A queen's revenge -- Social grievances: II. A petition to the novel-writers -- Fragments of personal experience: I. Laid up in lodgings -- Sketches of character: II. A shockingly rude article -- Nooks and corners of history: II. The great (forgotten) invasion -- Curiosities of literature: I. The unknown public -- Social grievances: III. Give us room! -- Curiosities of literature: II. Portrait of an author, painted by his publisher -- Fragments of personal experience: II. My black mirror -- Sketches of character: III. Mrs. Badgery.
Language: English
LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject: English literature -- 19th century
Release Date: Oct 5, 2013
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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