The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins - Rilegato

Peters, Catherine

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ISBN 10: 0691033927 ISBN 13: 9780691033921

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

A psychoanalyst examines the emotional sources of the never-ending quest for objects, a feeling common to people who collect such varied items as teddy bears, baseball cards, fine works of art, stamps, and textiles.

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Recensione:

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994
"[Collins] clearly relished performing his life, one minute as the well-known author Wilkie Collins, the next as 'Mr. William Dawson' holidaying in Ramsgate with Mrs. Dawson and the children. . . . Dealing with such an extraordinary life and such extraordinary fictions, most accounts of the artistic life would have no difficulty in presenting the one as simply a spill-over from the other. In this admirable biography, Catherine Peters resists such reductiveness."--Stephen Gill, The Times Literary Supplement

"[Collins's] oddity was increased by his addiction to opium, which he carried around with him in a silver hip-flask. 'All his life,' we learn from his present biographer, he was 'haunted by a second self,' by the idea that 'someone was standing behind him.' . . . Catherine Peters's book is crammed with interesting details."--Peter Quennell, The Evening Standard

"The first readable portrait of Collins as a human being."--Françoise Rivière, The European

"A wonderful case study in Victorian morals. . . . [Peters] offers a fascinating story, plainly told."--William St. Clair, Financial Times

"As intelligent and comprehensive account of [Collins's] work as we are ever likely to have."--Claire Tomalin, Independent on Sunday

L'autore:

Catherine Peters was a Lecturer in English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1981 to 1992.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0691033927
• ISBN 13: 9780691033921
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 502