The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Aprolific writer, Wilkie Collins (1824-89) authored some 25 novels, along with numerous articles, short stories, and plays. He was a close friend and collaborator of...
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Extracted from a Family Paper
I address these lines—written in India—to
my relatives in England.
My object is to explain the motive which has induced
me to refuse the right hand ...
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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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Teaching The Moonstone
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The Moonstone Lesson Plans contain 105 pages of teaching material, including:
The Moonstone
The Moonstone
William Wilkie Collins
(William) Wilkie Collins
