Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome

by Wilkie Collins

Book Overview

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1722797983
• ISBN13: 9781722797980
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Terrible print

I won't be reading this book, because the type used in this cheap reprint is awful. It is like reading a badly typed term paper. It uses a "modern" type font that comes out so the letters are obviously unevenly separated, evidently when they tried to justify the text along a straight right-hand margin (who does that in a real book?), so some letters are squished, other words are spread out (i.e., the kerning is miserable). Also, the periods are often to light to see. I'm on page 5 and I give up. I do not understand why they don't just photocopy the original, which was printed beautifully in a thoroughly legible typeface (see google books).