Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life

by Peter Ackroyd

Book Overview

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, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385537395
• ISBN13: 9780385537391
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.1"