William (Hrsg.) Baker

The Letters of Wilkie Collins

Volume 1

Buch

Wilkie Collins is the only leading Victorian novelist whose letters have not been published. This two-volume edition, edited by William Baker and William Clarke, fills a gaping hole in any assessment of one of the nineteenth century's most loved novelists. It is also extremely timely. Two recent biographies have re-assessed his private life and his literary achievements. His best-known novels, The Women in White and The Moonstone , continue to feature on television, and most of his thirty-odd novels are still in print. This authorised edition reproduces his selection of around 700 key letters of the 2,000 known to be in existence, some recent… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Clarke, W. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-333-67466-6
EAN: 9780333674666
Produktnummer: 23087546
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 316 S.
Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.7 cm 713 g
Auflage: 1999
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 713

Über den Autor

WILLIAM BAKER is Professor of English, Department of English, and Professor, University Libraries, at Northern Illinois University. He edits George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies and has written articles and books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and drama. His Letters of George Henry Lewes (2 volumes) was published in 1995 and Sir Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, the History of France was published in 1996.WILLIAM M CLARKE is the author of The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins and his wife, Faith, is the great grand-daughter of Wilkie Collins. His latest book was The Lost Fortune of the Tsars. He was formerly Financial Editor of The Times and chairman of a London merchant bank. He is the author of over ten books on London's financial markets, prompting former Prime Minister Harold Wilson to comments: `William Clarke is to the City of London what Boswell was to Dr Johnson'.