Wilkie Collins

The Dead Secret (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Porthgenna Tower is a place of secrets. Before Rosamond Treverton was born, her mother's servant gave birth following an ill-fated affair with a local miner. Unable to have children of her own, Mrs. Treverton adopts the child and swears Sarah, her servant, into silence-but the tower refuses to keep it. The Dead Secret is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513287249
• Artikelnr.: 61915981

Autorenporträt

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist and playwright. Born in London, Collins was raised in England, Italy, and France by William Collins, a renowned landscape painter, and his wife Harriet Geddes. After working for a short time as a tea merchant, he published Antonina (1850), his literary debut. He quickly became known as a leading author of sensation novels, a popular genre now recognized as a forerunner to detective fiction. Encouraged on by the success of his early work, Collins made a name for himself on the London literary scene. He soon befriended Charles Dickens, forming a strong bond grounded in friendship and mentorship that would last several decades. His novels The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868) are considered pioneering examples of mystery and detective fiction, and enabled Collins to become financially secure. Toward the end of the 1860s, at the height of his career, Collins began to suffer from numerous illnesses, including gout and opium addiction, which contributed to his decline as a writer. Beyond his literary work, Collins is seen as an early advocate for marriage reform, criticizing the institution and living a radically open romantic lifestyle.