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Wilkie Collins

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Informationen zum Autor Peter Ackroyd Klappentext Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women ¿ and avidly read by generations of readers. Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, `the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists¿, from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone ¿ often called the first true detective novel ¿ and the sensational The Woman in White , he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works. Told with Ackroyd¿s inimitable verve, this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great storyteller, full of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding. Zusammenfassung As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.

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Authors Peter Ackroyd
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 07.03.2013
 
EAN 9780099287476
ISBN 978-0-09-928747-6
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies

Biographien (div.), 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Biography: writers

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