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Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics)

by Lyn Pykett

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Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone, both published in the 1860's. However, in a literary career spanning almost forty years he wrote many other works, and Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing circumstances of his own life, a changing literary marketplace, and the changing worlds of nineteenth-century Britain, as well as his. enduring legacy for modern writers and interpreters. - ;Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel… (more)
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Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone, both published in the 1860's. However, in a literary career spanning almost forty years he wrote many other works, and Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing circumstances of his own life, a changing literary marketplace, and the changing worlds of nineteenth-century Britain, as well as his. enduring legacy for modern writers and interpreters. - ;Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel

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