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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 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

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

Collins published his best known works in the 1860s, achieving financial stability and an international reputation. During this time he began suffering from gout and developed an addiction to opium, which he took (in the form of laudanum) for pain. He continued to publish novels... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

I AM going to try if I can't write something about myself. My life has been rather a strange one. It may not seem particularly useful or respectable; but it has been, in some respects, adventurous; and that may give it claims to be read, even in the most prejudiced circles. I... Read Full Overview

A Rogue's Life is a novel written by the acclaimed English author, Wilkie Collins. The book tells the story of a young man named Frank Softly, who is forced to flee his home after being falsely accused of theft. Frank decides to embark on a life of crime, becoming a rogue and... Read Full Overview

""A Rogue's Life: From His Birth To His Marriage"" is a novel written by the renowned English author, Wilkie Collins, and first published in 1894. The story follows the life of a man named Frank Softly, who is born into poverty and becomes a rogue in his youth. Frank's life takes... Read Full Overview

Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this was also... Read Full Overview

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English... Read Full Overview

A Rogue's Life, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations... Read Full Overview

The book "A Rogue's Life" is a heart-warming mystery and detective fiction. Frank Softly, the protagonist of the story, narrates the account of his unique and daring life. The son of a well-respected merchant, Frank, decides to adopt a more roguish lifestyle after becoming disillusioned... Read Full Overview