Wilkie Collins

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.

Product details

• 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