Name: The Dead Secret
SKU: 60735488
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781534689299

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Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

194

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

28x21.6x1 cm

Weight

0.46 kg.

ISBN13

9781534689299

Synopsis "The Dead Secret"

The Dead Secret Wilkie Collins The secret of the title is the parentage of the heroine, Rosamund Treverton, who has been passed off as the daughter of the wealthy former actress Mrs Treverton of Porthgenna Tower, but is in fact the illegitimate child of her servant Sarah Leeson by a local miner (Mrs Treverton

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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