Biography EssayAlthough best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)—which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English dete...
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The English author William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) wrote intricately plotted novels of sensational intrigue which helped establish the conventions of modern detective fiction.Wilkie Collins was bor...
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"Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait." This adage of Wilkie Collins epitomizes his success as the leading sensation novelist of Victorian England. Combining expert plotting with carefully desc...
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Although best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)--which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English detective story--Wilkie Col...
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Victorian fiction writer, essayist, and social commentator Wilkie Collins continues to perplex critics and entertain readers. Critics, pointing to his stereotyped characters, melodramatic plots, somet...
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Heart and Science
William Wilkie Collins
(William) Wilkie Collins
