Книга: Wilkie Collins (Ackroyd Peter); Vintage books, 2013

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women – and avidly read by generations of readers.

Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, ‘the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists’, from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.

Told with Ackroyd’s inimitable verve, this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great storyteller, full of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780099287476
Автор(ы)	Ackroyd Peter
Вес	0.16
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2013
Жанр	биографии и мемуары
Издатель	Vintage books
Издательство	Vintage books
Кол-во страниц	216
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	216
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая