Camb Companion Wilkie Collins

Book Overview

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521549663
• ISBN13: 9780521549660
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"