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The doctors could do no more for the Dowager
Lady Berrick.
When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached
seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of
the South of France, they mean in p...
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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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Judiciary: To green extremists' glee, global warming has joined the long list of issues on which the Supreme Court says courts -- not the people's elected leaders -- know best. To which we ask: Why...
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Judiciary: When a judge in Iowa, of all places, unilaterally legalizes same-sex marriage, you know those wearing the black robes are out of control. Appointing judges who judge, not legislate, has ...
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QARA KELISA, Iran, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The last priest left
the Black Church more than half a century ago and now the
picture on the wall of a former monk's cell is of the Islamic
Republic's founde...
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In America, our idea of frontier explorers has a Davy Crockett image: rugged men of action, handy with a gun and ready to use it on any inconvenient natives.Yet the man who first mapped one of the ...
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Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, from a screenplay by Mr. Chow, Tsang Kan Cheong, Xin Huo and Chan Man Keung, is difficult for me to evaluate. I know next to nothing about Mr. Chow, even though he's ...
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William Wilkie Collins
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