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Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to a London painter, William Collins, and his wife, the family moved to Italy when Collins was twelve, living there and in France for two years, so that he learned Italian and French. He worked at first as a tea merchant. On publishing his first novel, Antonina, in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some Collins works appeared first in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. The two also collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins reached financial stability and an international following in the 1860s from his best-known works, but began to suffer from gout. He took opium for the pain, but became addicted to it. His health and his writing quality declined in the 1870s and 1880s. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he later split his time between widow Caroline Graves, with whom he had lived most of his adult life, treating her daughter as his, and the younger Martha Rudd, by whom he had three children.Books
The Law and the LadyWilkie Collins15h 15m$2.30
The Frozen Deep and Miss or MrsWilkie Collins6h 44m$2.30
The Legacy of CainWilkie Collins12h 56m$2.30
The Guilty RiverWilkie Collins4h 55m$2.30
The Two DestiniesWilkie Collins9h 33m$2.30
The Dead Secret: A NovelWilkie Collins15h 4m$2.30
The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins26h 30m$2.30
My Miscellanies Vol 1 & 2Wilkie Collins14h 50m$2.30
ArmadaleWilkie Collins31h 57m$2.30
The Black RobeWilkie Collins12h 2m$2.30
Little NovelsWilkie Collins16h 22m$2.30
My Lady's MoneyWilkie Collins5h 47m$2.30
After DarkWilkie Collins14h 51m$2.30
Die Frau in WeißWilkie Collins6h 15m$2.30
Antonina: Or, The Fall of RomeWilkie Collins18h 33m$2.30
Poor Miss FinchWilkie Collins17h 47m$2.30
BasilWilkie Collins12h 23m$2.30
The Fallen LeavesWilkie Collins14h 21m$2.30
Hide and SeekWilkie Collins17h 13m$2.30
The Evil Genius: A Domestic StoryWilkie Collins12h 28m$2.30
The Haunted Hotel A Mystery of Modern VeniceWilkie Collins6h 55m$2.30
Man and WifeWilkie Collins25h 44m$2.30
Blind LoveWilkie Collins14h 23m$2.30
No NameWilkie Collins29h 9m$2.30
"I Say No"Wilkie Collins13h 31m$2.30
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present TimeWilkie Collins15h$2.30
The Queen of HeartsWilkie Collins15h 26m$2.30
The New MagdalenWilkie Collins11h 23m$2.30
A Rogue's LifeWilkie Collins5h 12m$2.30
Jezebel's DaughterWilkie Collins11h 18m$2.30
The Dead Alive and A Fair PenitentWilkie Collins2h 51m$2.30
The MoonstoneWilkie Collins21h 12m$2.30
Rambles Beyond Railways, or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-footWilkie Collins6h 43m$2.30