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Scion of a well-connected but impoverished family, Frank Softly may be the most audacious, outrageous, engaging, and thoroughly lovestruck young man in Regency London. By the age of 25, he's been in and out of doctoring, caricaturing, forging Old Masters, and counterfeiting half-crowns... Read Full Overview

A Rogue's Life is a picaresque novel that was written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1879. The book centers around the misadventures of Frank Softly, the son of a successful doctor, who refuses to follow in his father's footsteps.Wilkie Collins was a prominent English writer... Read Full Overview

The critical reader may possibly notice a tone of almost boisterous gayety in certain parts of these imaginary Confessions. I can only plead, in defense, that the story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles... Read Full Overview

A ROGUE'S LIFEWilkie Collins's short novel was originally published in Household Words during 1856. It was republished in book form in 1879 after an invitation from George Bentley 'to take a place in his new series of pretty volumes in red.' Collins made minor changes to the... Read Full Overview

A Rogue's Life is the 1856 novel by Wilkie Collins. First serialized in Dicken's 1856 magazine Household Words, the story concerns the thwarted ambitions and forbidden love of an endearing twenty-something, Frank.

Confesiones de un brib n posee una trama compleja y bien elaborada, una brillante construcci n de personajes y un constante despliegue de ambig edades intrigantes, ir nicas y divertidas. Todo expresado con una fina y divertida iron a al servicio de la cr tica m s voraz y despiadada... Read Full Overview

"A Rogue's Life" from Wilkie Collins. English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories (1824-1889).

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Collinss classic work.

Excerpt from A Rogue's Life: From His Birth to His Marriage

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to a London painter, William Collins, and his... Read Full Overview