Wilkie Collins
$35.25
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2013
Summary
Ackroyd at his best - a gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White.
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099287476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099287471 |
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Insightful
Four stars, (A) perfect little biography – Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
With deft strokes, Peter Ackroyd’s biography portrays his character and sets him in context, weaving critical appraisals seamlessly into the story of his life. The bravura of this biography lies in its brilliantly judged brevity. – Iain Finlayson * The Times *
Unfailingly perceptive – Andrew Taylor * Independent *
This biography is compulsive reading * The Economist *
Insightful – Judith Flanders * Sunday Telegraph *
Neat and informative – DJ Taylor * Independent on Sunday *
Always absorbing – Lesley McDowell * Glasgow Sunday Herald *
Concise but wide-ranging… A fitting tribute to [Collins’] legacy – Sally Morris * Daily Mail *
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster.
Notable Works:
- London: The Biography
- Thames: Sacred River
- London Under
- Biographies of Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin, and Alfred Hitchcock
- A multi-volume history of England
Accolades:
- Whitbread Biography Award
- Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Guardian Fiction Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- South Bank Prize for Literature
He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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