Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd

Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life

Ackroyd's Brief Lives #5

Peter Ackroyd

272 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history mysterious fast-paced
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A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, two early masterpieces of mystery and detection. Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely nearsighted, unabl...

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