Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd (Ackroyd’s Brief Lives #5)
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Overview: Ackroyd at his best gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of ‘The Moonstone’ and ‘The Woman in White’.
Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, ‘as if playing a certain part in the great general drama of life’ Wilkie Collins looked distinctily 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.
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 writer, his years of fame and his life long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. A true Londoner, Collins, like Dickens, was fascinated by the secrets and crimes the fraud, blackmail and poisonings that lay hidden behind the city’s respectable facade. He was a fighter, never afraid to point out injustices and shams, or to tackle the establishment head on. As well as his enduring masterpieces, ‘The Moonstone’ often called the first true detective novel and the sensational ‘Woman in White’, he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography
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