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Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women - and avidly read by generations of readers. Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, 'the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists', from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. As well as his enduring masterpieces, "The Moonstone" - often called the first true detective novel - and the sensational "The Woman in White", he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works. Told with Ackroyd's inimitable verve, this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great storyteller, full of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: Wilkie Collins
• Author: Peter Ackroyd
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099287476
• ISBN: 0099287471
• ID: 01242515
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 166 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 131 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. March 2013

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