The Moonstone: Wilkie Collins (Macmillan Collector’s Library) - Hardcover

Collins, Wilkie

 
9781509850907: The Moonstone: Wilkie Collins (Macmillan Collector’s Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1509850902 ISBN 13: 9781509850907
Verlag: Collector´S Library, 2018

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An elegant gift edition of one of the very first detective stories ever written, introduced by historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.

Judith Flanders is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books: A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home (2014), Christmas: A History (2017) and A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.

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An elegant gift edition of one of the very first detective stories ever written, introduced by historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders.

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Verlag
Collector´S Library
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509850902
ISBN 13 
9781509850907
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Anzahl der Seiten
528
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