Synopsis "After Dark"

After Dark is Wilkie Collins' collection of six short stories, published in 1856. These varied stories are told by a painter. A portrait painter William is suffering from eyesight problem. Doctor suggests him to take a long break to give rest to his eyes if he wants to see the world as normal. To earn a livelihood for the family, his wife insists him to be an author. She is very much interested in writing. These stories are related with painters models narration or experiences. These are very much thrilling and adventurous stories -- -The Traveller's Story of A Terribly Strange Bed -The Lawyer's Story of A Stolen Letter -The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose -The Angler's Story of The Lady of Glenwith Grange -The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage -The Professor's Story of The Yellow Mask

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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