Wilkie Collins
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born
January 08, 1824
died
December 13, 1901
gender
male
place of birth
London, England, The United Kingdom
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genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Charles Dickens
about this author
A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William "Wilkie" Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens's bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has for fifty years. Most of his books are in print - and all are now in e-text - he is studied widely, and new film, television and radio versions of some of his books have been made. All his letters have been published. However, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction.
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins avg rating 4.01 — 4,419 ratings — published 1859 118 editions |
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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.89 — 2,892 ratings — published 1868 153 editions |
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No Name by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.94 — 177 ratings — published 1862 21 editions |
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Armadale by Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland avg rating 3.83 — 150 ratings — published 1972 25 editions |
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The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.65 — 103 ratings — published 1999 15 editions |
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The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.57 — 96 ratings — published 1900 27 editions |
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The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.61 — 59 ratings — published 1968 13 editions |
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Basil by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.29 — 55 ratings — published 2000 16 editions |
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Man And Wife by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.72 — 36 ratings — published 1983 13 editions |
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A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins avg rating 3.91 — 34 ratings — published 1900 16 editions |
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"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."
— Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
— Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
"At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a state of perpetual contradiction with himself. He could be a busy man, and a lazy man; cloudy in the head, and clear in the head; a model of determination, and a spectacle of helplessness, all together. He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side--the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, "Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there's something of me left at the bottom of him still." "
— Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)
— Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)
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