The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins

by Catherine Peters

Book Overview

In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous Woman in White and The Moonstone . An intimate of Dickens and of the Pre-Raphaelites Holman Hunt and Millais, Collins was called the "king of inventors" by his publisher. On the surface, he was charming, unpretentious, and extremely good company, beloved by men and women. Beneath this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691033927
• ISBN13: 9780691033921
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.8" x 10.0"