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Book A Rogue s Life

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  • Author : Wilkie Collins
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  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book A Rogue s Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rogue s Life

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  • Author : Wilkie Collins
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-16
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  • Pages : 131 pages

Download or read book A Rogue s Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Rogue's Life" by Wilkie Collins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book A Rogue s Life   From His Birth to His Marriage

Download or read book A Rogue s Life From His Birth to His Marriage written by Wilkie Collins and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1894, this book contains the classic novel 'A Rogue's Life - From Birth to His Marriage', by the well-known author Wilkie Collins, and will make a lovely addition to the bookshelf of anyone that's a fan of his work.

Book A Rogue s Life

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  • Author : Wilkie Collins
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2019-01-21
  • ISBN : 9780483362390
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Rogue s Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Rogue's Life: From His Birth to His Marriage The following pages were written more than twenty years since, and were then published periodically in Household Words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book A Rogue s Life  from His Birth to His Marriage

Download or read book A Rogue s Life from His Birth to His Marriage written by Wilkie Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue's Life follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytelling-and with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings today-this is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best. Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank Softly is introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life a challenge, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed medicine, portrait-painting, caricaturing, and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit to-until he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father. The author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins is widely regarded as the originator of the detective novel....... William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins published his best known works in the 1860s, achieved financial stability and an international reputation. During that time he began suffering from gout. After taking opium for the pain, he developed an addiction. During the 1870s and 1880s the quality of his writing declined along with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage and never married; he split his time between Caroline Graves, except for a two-year separation, and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children. Collins was born at 11 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, London, the son of a well-known Royal Academician landscape painter, William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes. Named after his father, he swiftly became known by his middle name, which honoured his godfather, David Wilkie. The family moved to Pond Street, Hampstead, in 1826. In 1828 Collins's brother Charles Allston Collins was born. Between 1829 and 1830, the Collins family moved twice, first to Hampstead Square and then to Porchester Terrace, Bayswater.Wilkie and Charles received their early education from their mother at home. The Collins family were deeply religious, and Collins's mother enforced strict church attendance on her sons, which Wilkie disliked. In 1835, Collins began attending school at the Maida Vale academy. From 1836 to 1838, he lived with his parents in Italy and France, which made a great impression on him. He learned Italian while the family was in Italy and began learning French, in which he would eventually become fluent.From 1838 to 1840, he attended the Reverend Cole's private boarding school in Highbury, where he was bullied by a boy who would force Collins to tell him a story before allowing him to go to sleep.....

Book A Rogue s Life

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  • Author : Wilkie Collins
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  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book A Rogue s Life written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reality s Dark Light

Download or read book Reality s Dark Light written by Maria K. Bachman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a Victorian culture ingrained with strict social etiquette and societal norms, Wilkie Collins composed novels that contained asocial, even anarchic, impulses. A contemporary of Dickens, Collins creates a world more Kafkaesque than Dickensian, a world populated by doppelgangers, secret selves, oddballs, and grotesques. The essays of Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins purposefully work to expand Collins's legacy beyond The Woman in White and The Moonstone; they move well past the simplistic view of Collins's works as "sensation novels," "detective novels," or even "popular fiction," all labels that carry with them pejorative connotations. This collection represents the range of Collins's aesthetic project from various critical perspectives. New methodological and theoretical approaches are applied both to him most popular and to his lesser-known works, giving the reader a broader picture of this multifaceted and undervalued writer The Editors: Maria K. Bachman in an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Newsletter, Literature and Psychology, The Dickensian, and Dickens Studies Annual. Don Richard Cox is a professor of English and associate dean at the University of Tennessee. His books include Sexuality andVictorian Literature (Tennessee), Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Annotated Bibliography. He is the coeditor, with Maria Bachman, of an edition of Wilkie Collins's final novel, Blind Love

Book The Eclectic Magazine

Download or read book The Eclectic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excursions in Victorian Bibliography

Download or read book Excursions in Victorian Bibliography written by Michael Sadleir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author (1888 - 1957) was the most noted scholar and bibliographer of Victorian literature in his time. In this book, he speaks of his great love for Victorian novelists such as Anthony Trollope, Benjamin Disraeli, Frederick Marryat, Wilkie Collins, Mrs. Gaskell, and others. Each author is given several introductory pages, followed by bibliographic notes.

Book The Popular Science Monthly

Download or read book The Popular Science Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roxburghe Library of Classics

Download or read book The Roxburghe Library of Classics written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rogue s Life from His Birth to His Marriage

Download or read book A Rogue s Life from His Birth to His Marriage written by Wilkie Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rogue's Life From his Birth to his Marriage: Large print by Wilkie Collins The critical reader may possibly notice a tone of almost boisterous gayety in certain parts of these imaginary Confessions. I can only plead, in defense, that the story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were joyously passed with many other friends, all associated with literature and art, of whom the admirable comedian, Regnier, is now the only survivor. The revising of these pages has been to me a melancholy task. I can only hope that they may cheer the sad moments of others. The Rogue may surely claim two merits, at least, in the eyes of the new generation--he is never serious for two moments together; and he "doesn't take long to read." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book The Bibliophile Library of Literature  Art and Rare Manuscripts

Download or read book The Bibliophile Library of Literature Art and Rare Manuscripts written by Forrest Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature

Download or read book Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eclectic Magazine

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  • Author : John Holmes Agnew
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  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 840 pages

Download or read book Eclectic Magazine written by John Holmes Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: