Collected Memoirs, Letters and Literary Essays of Wilkie Collins (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Biographies, letters, and essays on mystery, detective fiction, and Victorian societyBy Wilkie Collins
Length39h 56m
About this audiobook
Collected Memoirs, Letters and Literary Essays of Wilkie Collins gathers the autobiographical fragments, correspondence, and critical prose of one of Victorian fiction's most inventive practitioners. Read together, these writings illuminate the intellectual workshop behind the sensation novel: Collins's fascination with legal injustice, theatrical pacing, social hypocrisy, and the unstable boundaries between respectability and transgression. The style ranges from intimate and epistolary to argumentative and urbane, situating Collins within the bustling literary culture of nineteenth-century periodicals, circulating libraries, and collaborative authorship. Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), friend and occasional collaborator of Charles Dickens, was shaped by artistic training, extensive travel, chronic illness, and an acute sensitivity to the constraints imposed by Victorian morality. The experiences that inform novels such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone are visible here in more direct form: his skepticism toward institutions, sympathy for social outsiders, and practical understanding of publication, performance, and readership. This volume is recommended for readers who wish to move beyond Collins's plots and encounter the mind that devised them. Scholars, students, and admirers of Victorian literature will find it an indispensable companion to his fiction and a revealing document of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length39 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Collected Memoirs, Letters and Literary Essays of Wilkie Collins (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6Biographies:
7Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 1)
8Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 2)
9Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 3)
10Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 4)
11Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 5)
12Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 6)
13Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 7)
14Memoirs of the Life of William Collins (With Selections From His Journals and Correspondence) (pt. 8)
15Letters and Literary Writings:
16A Clause for the New Reform Bill
17A Column to Burns
18A Dramatic Author
19A Fair Penitent
20A Pictorial Tour to St George Bosherville
21A Shy Scheme
22Address from the Queen to Certain of Her Subjects in Office
23Awful Warning to Bachelors
24Books Necessary for a Liberal Education
25Burns Viewed As a Hat-Peg
26Considerations on The Copyright Question
27Deep Design on Society
28Doctor Dulcamara, MP.
29Dramatic Grub Street
30How I Write My Books
31Magnetic Evenings at Home
32Pity a Poor Prince
33Rambles Beyond Railways (pt. 1)
34Rambles Beyond Railways (pt. 2)
35Rambles Beyond Railways (pt. 3)
36Reminiscences of a Storyteller
37Sermon for Sepoys
38Thanks to Doctor Livingstone
39The Cruise of the Tomtit
40The Debtor’s Best Friend
41The Exhibition of the Royal Academy
42The Little Huguenot
43The National Gallery and the Old Masters
44Analysis
45Reflection
46Memorable Quotes
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