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A gripping, brief biography of the incredible Wilkie Collins, writer of The Moonstone and The Female in White, two early masterpieces of unknown and detection. Brief and oddly built, with a brain too large for his body, extremely near-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed up in multi-colored clothes - Wilkie Collins searched distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, cherished by children, irresistibly appealing to women, and avidly read by years of visitors. Peter Ackroyd practices his hero, "the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists", from his childhood as the child of any well-known artist to his battling origins as a writer, his years of fame, and his lifelong companionship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. In addition to his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone - categorised as the first true detective book - and the sensational The Female in White, Collins produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works. Told with Ackroyd's inimitable verve, this is a ravishingly interesting life of any great storyteller, packed with surprises, abundant with humor and sympathetic understanding.
