The Dead Alive (Large Print Edition)
Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Collins's classic work.
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Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Collins's classic work.
H | B | T | Gramm
229 mm | 152 mm | 6 mm | 0.167 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Serenity Press
ISBN-10
1604509872
ISBN-13
9781604509878
Autor
Wilkie Collins
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
106
Themen
Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch
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Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright best known for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery and early sensation novel, and The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and may be the first clear example of the police procedural genre. Born to London painter William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes, he moved to Italy with them when he was twelve years old, spending two years there and in France learning both Italian and French. Collins was born at 11 New Cavendish Street in London, the son of William Collins, a well-known Royal Academician landscape painter, and his wife, Harriet Geddes. Named after his father, he quickly became recognized by his second name, which honors his godfather, painter David Wilkie. The family relocated to Pond Street, Hampstead, around 1826. In 1828, Collins' brother Charles Allston Collins was born. Between 1829 and 1830, the Collins family relocated twice: first to Hampstead Square and subsequently to Porchester Terrace in Bayswater. Wilkie and Charles received an early education from their mother at home. The Collins family was very religious, and Collins' mother insisted on strict church attendance for her boys, which Wilkie detested.
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