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Wilkie Collins

Born

in Marylebone, London, England, The United Kingdom

January 08, 1824

Died

September 23, 1889

Website

http://www.wilkiecollins.com/

Genre

Fiction, Mystery, Travel

Influences

Charles Dickens

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Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright, best known for The Woman in White (1860), an early sensation novel, and The Moonstone (1868), a pioneering work of detective fiction. Born to landscape painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, he spent part of his childhood in Italy and France, learning both languages. Initially working as a tea merchant, he later studied law, though he never practiced. His literary career began with Antonina (1850), and a meeting with Charles Dickens in 1851 proved pivotal. The two became close friends and collaborators, with Collins contributing to Dickens' journals and co-writing dramatic works.
Collins' success peaked in the 1860s with novels that combined suspense with social critique, includin ...more

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	The Woman in White 4.01 avg rating — 165,505 ratings — published 1859 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moonstone 3.91 avg rating — 98,560 ratings — published 1868 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Name 3.96 avg rating — 10,017 ratings — published 1862 — 514 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armadale by Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 7,300 ratings — published 1866 — 549 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice 3.43 avg rating — 8,278 ratings — published 1879 — 661 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Law and the Lady 3.79 avg rating — 3,395 ratings — published 1875 — 786 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Secret 3.73 avg rating — 2,894 ratings — published 1856 — 481 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Basil by Wilkie Collins, Dorothy Goldman (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 2,441 ratings — published 1852 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man and Wife 3.94 avg rating — 1,457 ratings — published 1870 — 270 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins, Catherine Peters (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 1,224 ratings — published 1872 — 341 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 144 pages

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37 votes, 17.4%

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1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

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1848, The Lady of the Camellias byAlexandre Dumas, 240 pages

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1874, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages

16 votes, 7.5%

900, The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous, 906 pages

14 votes, 6.6%

1759, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman byLaurence Sterne, 588 pages

12 votes, 5.6%

1853, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 257 pages

12 votes, 5.6%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages

11 votes, 5.2%

1862, No Name byWilkie Collins, 748 pages

2 votes, 0.9%

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