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In the 1860s Collins wrote his most famous novels, including The Woman in White and The Moonstone, but his health began to decline a decade later, and he became addicted to laudanum, which impacted his writing career. Collins died in 1889 and was buried in London; his tombstone is dedicated to “the author of The Woman in White.”
17 de abr. de 2008 · William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
This famous mystery thriller by Wilkie Collins has suspense, excitement, romance, and a plot that twists and turns on every page. Características. Ver todo. Editor. Oxford university press. Colección. Oxford bookworms library. 17,31 €.
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet ...
1 de sept. de 2017 · Although The Woman in White is not unique among Collins’s novels for the number of letters that make it into the plot, his use of letters as material objects in that novel distinguishes it from his other works of the 1860s. 61 With a few notable exceptions, Collins uses letters in No Name, Armadale and The Moonstone to provide access to alternative points of view and important information or ...
Plot Summary. The Woman in White is widely considered to be one of the first mystery novels as well as a first in the genre of “sensation” novels. It was written by Wilkie Collins in 1859 and tells a story of intrigue in London. Walter Hartright is a young art teacher. One night in London, he sees a distressed woman dressed entirely in white.
The Woman in White. By. Wilkie Collins 'I began this story on 15 August 1859, at Broadstairs, and finished it on the 26th July 1860 at 12 Harley Street, London. It was first published, in weekly parts, in "All the Year Round", beginning in the number for November 23rd 1859, and ending with the number for August 22nd 1860. During ...
