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Author Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-

Title Wilkie Collins / Peter Ackroyd.

Publication Info. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2015]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY COLLINS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B COLLINS, WILKIE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  823.8 COLLINS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B COLLINS WILKIE A    Check Shelf
Edition First United States edition.
Description viii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Series Ackroyd's brief lives
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- Ackroyd's brief lives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.
Summary Presents a short biography of the author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White," two early masterpieces of mystery and detection.
Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely nearsighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women--and avidly read by generations of readers. Biographer 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 lifelong friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. As well as his enduring masterpieces, including The Moonstone, often called the first true detective novel, he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works. This is an entertaining life of a great storyteller, full of surprises, rich in humor and sympathetic understanding.--Adapted from book jacket.
Subject Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780385537391 (alk. paper)
0385537395 (alk. paper)
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