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The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins
Catherine Peters
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Paperback. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: WZ. Dimension: 234 x 160. Weight in Grams: 794.
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 facade, 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 ... Read more
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 facade, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
530
Condition
New
Number of Pages
530
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691606989
SKU
V9780691606989
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Reviews for The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994 "[Collins] clearly relished performing his life, one minute as the well-known author Wilkie Collins, the next as 'Mr. William Dawson' holidaying in Ramsgate with Mrs. Dawson and the children... Dealing with such an extraordinary life and such extraordinary fictions, most accounts of the artistic life would have no difficulty in presenting the ... Read more