Name: Hide and Seek
SKU: 57856050
Price: 1392.00 TWD
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781636375472

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Bibliotech Press

Language

English

Pages

276

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.9 cm

Weight

0.58 kg.

ISBN13

9781636375472

Synopsis "Hide and Seek"

Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins' third published novel. It is the first of his novels involving the solution of a mystery, the elements of which are clearer to the reader than to the novel's characters. Suspense is created from the reader's uncertainty as to which characters will find out the truth, when and how. Hide and Seek was hailed by both contemporary and modern critics to be an advance on his previous work, the sensational melodrama Basil, though inferior to The Woman in White and other novels of his mature period. (wikipedia.org)

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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