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Stories from a Victorian Age - Volume 10 - cover

Stories from a Victorian Age - Volume 10

Wilkie Collins

Publisher: Greenbooks Editore

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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859), and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been posited as the first modern English detective novel. Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, he moved with the family to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years and learning Italian and French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. After publishing Antonina, his first novel, in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor.
Available since: 06/15/2021.

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