# Wilkie Collins

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- Authors: [Peter Ackroyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-ackroyd)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-03-07

## Description

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women – and avidly read by generations of readers. Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, ‘the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists’, from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White , he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works. Told with Ackroyd’s inimitable verve, this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great storyteller, full of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding.

## Editions

### Wilkie Collins

- Publisher: nan_a_talese
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-8553-740-7
- Published: 2015-10-06
- Language: en_US

### Wilkie Collins

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-747-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2013-03-07
- Language: en_GB