Oxford World's Classics: Mad Monkton and Other Stories - Brossura

Collins, Wilkie

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ISBN 10: 0192837729 ISBN 13: 9780192837721

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Riassunto

Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the best-selling creator of the vogue for `sensation fiction' in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length novel. In particular, he produced a stream of often brillant and original short stories. Adapting the tradition of the Gothic tale of terror, he wrote ghost stories with a distinctively contemporary flavour and also made a major contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective story. This volume has a substantial and informative introduction which places the stories in the context of Collins's career and the Victorian literary scene. It brings together samples of his work from three decades and demonstrates that as a purveyor of mystery, suspense, and the uncanny, as a chronicler of the dark underside of everyday life in the mid-Victorian period, and as a story-teller who quickly seizes the reader's interest and refuses to let go, Collins has few rivals.

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Contenuti

A Terribly Strange Bed; A Stolen Letter; Mad Monkton; The Ostler; The Diary of Anne Rodway; The Lady of Glenwith Grange; The Dead Hand; The Biter Bit; John Jago's Ghost; The Clergyman's Confession; The Captain's Last Love; Who Killed Zebedee?

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Book by Collins Wilkie

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192837729
• ISBN 13: 9780192837721
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 422
• Redattore: Page Norman