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A ROGUE'S LIFEWilkie Collins's short novel was originally published in Household Words during 1856. It was republished in book form in 1879 after an invitation from George Bentley 'to take a place in his new series of pretty volumes in red.' Collins made minor changes to the... Read Full Overview

Scion of a well-connected but impoverished family, Frank Softly may be the most audacious, outrageous, engaging, and thoroughly lovestruck young man in Regency London. By the age of 25, he's been in and out of doctoring, caricaturing, forging Old Masters, and counterfeiting half-crowns... Read Full Overview

A Rogue's Life is a picaresque novel that was written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1879. The book centers around the misadventures of Frank Softly, the son of a successful doctor, who refuses to follow in his father's footsteps.Wilkie Collins was a prominent English writer... Read Full Overview

Confesiones de un brib n posee una trama compleja y bien elaborada, una brillante construcci n de personajes y un constante despliegue de ambig edades intrigantes, ir nicas y divertidas. Todo expresado con una fina y divertida iron a al servicio de la cr tica m s voraz y despiadada... Read Full Overview

"A Rogue's Life" from Wilkie Collins. English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories (1824-1889).

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Collinss classic work.

Excerpt from A Rogue's Life: From His Birth to His Marriage

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... Read Full Overview

A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue's Life follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytelling-and with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings today-this is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best... Read Full Overview

Collins published his best known works in the 1860s, achieving financial stability and an international reputation. During this time he began suffering from gout and developed an addiction to opium, which he took (in the form of laudanum) for pain. He continued to publish novels... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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I AM going to try if I can't write something about myself. My life has been rather a strange one. It may not seem particularly useful or respectable; but it has been, in some respects, adventurous; and that may give it claims to be read, even in the most prejudiced circles. I... Read Full Overview