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Wilkie Collins's The Fallen Leaves was first published in 1879. Amelius Goldenheart is deported from his Utopian community because of a relationship with an older woman.A Story of Life for All Ages. William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist,... Read Full Overview

The Fallen Leaves is an 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins. 1] It details Amelius Goldenheart, an American Christian Socialist's, sojourn to England after exile from his Utopian commune, and his difficulties when elements of his past life resurface. The book was dedicated to Caroline... Read Full Overview

The Fallen Leaves is an 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins. 1] It details Amelius Goldenheart, an American Christian Socialist's, sojourn to England after exile from his Utopian commune, and his difficulties when elements of his past life resurface. The book was dedicated to Caroline... Read Full Overview

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

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

Caroline Graves (1796 - 1884).Born in Harperfields, New York, USA on 1796 to Orange Graves and Aurelia Sikes. Caroline Graves married Benjamin Franklin Gibbs and had 4 children. She passed away on 1 Jul 1884 in Fox Lake, Wisconsin, USA....Wilkie Collins's novel was published... Read Full Overview

The resistless influences which are one day to reign supreme over our poor hearts, and to shape the sad short course of our lives, are sometimes of mysteriously remote origin, and find their devious ways to us through the hearts and the lives of strangers. While the young man... Read Full Overview

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

The Fallen Leaves, Wilkie Collins's novel was published in 1879, devoted to Caroline Graves. The title 'Fallen Leaves' depicts the life of four women, who are lonely and friendless and have relationship with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart. Banished from his Utopian people group... Read Full Overview