Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was born on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889. In those 65 years he wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and more than 100 non-fiction pieces. A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens's bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has for fifty years. Almost all his books are in print, he is studied widely, and new film and television versions of some of his books have been made. Nevertheless, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction.

---

Featured Books, with extracts by Wilkie Collins

The Woman In White
Wilkie Collins
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...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Audio Books | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/04/2008
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
A fabulous diamond becomes Rachel Verinder's dangerous inheritance. Outside her house watch the Hindu priests who have waited many years to reclaim their looted talisman. When the Moonstone disappears, the case looks simple, but no-one is what they seem, and...
Featured in: 14+ readers | Audio Books | Ebooks
Format: Paperback (c Format) - Released: 07/10/1999
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy